Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ship of state or of class, they try their hardest to pull in the gangplank to success along with them. As McDonald's reached Fortune 500 status in the late 60's, it turned its back on its entrepreneurial origins. Kroc had touted the franchising scheme, for instance, as a kind of popularization of big business, an opportunity to return to the era of Mom and Pop restaurants in spite of an increasingly concentrated economy. But as Kroc's company grew, it began to tread mercilessly on the franchisers who had paved the way for its growth. Using questionable techniques...
Panizza's devil seems to be the only one who grasps this fact clearly, and it informs his dissatisfaction and frustration with the scheme of being and not being. He sees the heavenly world the way the playwright does--as a fraud. He's an intellectual type, consigned for his shrewdness to menial tasks and thwarted revolutions. He's sort of sympathetic in his weakness; surely he would be happier with his head in the clouds. Instead, he's worse off than we are, with his feet firmly planted under the ground. It might be going...
...Parliament and early elections? If so, the results of the vote could give the powerful Communist Party a major role in whatever new government was formed, even Cabinet-level positions. In order to forestall that disturbing prospect, the Christian Democrats, led by Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini, had devised a scheme. They would push the idea of limited consultations between the parties-including the Communists-to agree on a common economic policy. Such a plan would avoid the need for early elections and provide a convenient way to gain the support of the Communists for economic measures without actually admitting them...
There she befriends Vincent Lazlo, a homosexual designer who turns her into My Fair Lady. His scheme is to shape Lilly into marriage bait for a rich - preferably old - man. Instead, she is snared by Harry Shawcross, a young producer of public relations films who needs a presentable wife to complete his résumé. As Mrs. Shawcross, Lilly moves to Washington where Harry is on the fringes of John Kennedy's Camelot. But she refuses to play the docile Guinevere. At one point she even draws attention to herself when she is the only woman...
...this is well enough done, but not until Mrozek begins to explore these deceptively complicated characters in depth does the symmetry of the role-reversal scheme breakdown, revealing some of the more profound themes beneath...