Word: servants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painful awkwardness. Elizabeth McNary, as evil high priestess Slipreewenwhet, delivers some glorious Mae Westian asides. LeRoy W. Collins has a flair for outrageousness, but is miscast as the lecherous Pharoah, Seqentunun. Jim Tung, as Inkitin the scribe, Clare McGorrian as Eforeti the Queen, Mary Demerest as an anachronistic Brooklyn servant, and Michael Cohen as the thief Ali Katz, all have moments, but something doesn't gel. Cohen, especially, shows raw talent, but lacks experienced directorial guidance to help him bring his Peter Lorre persona off. Dede Schmeiser also shows potential as Rosetta Stone, a character fashioned in the mold...
...this trap, both of which tend to compound the problem. The first is to jump sideways as you jump up, finding high-paid jobs in other agencies that you often are only remotely qualified to fill. Most hiring officers prefer the relatively unqualified but established civil servant to the highly qualified outsider because all outsiders are unknown quantities...
...outlet but as a force, an effective instrument of social change. "The record company's making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State to Be. "It was the high hope that you would become a civil servant," he says. "That was the best you could do. But rock 'n' roll changed the way I look at society...
...agent of his undoing is Jean-Paul, a roguish Parisian chauffeur (Jack Lenoir) who sees that the screenwriter is too cubical to make a move toward the very available Hunnicutt character and who does the necessary maneuvering himself. He is a scampish servant of classical comedy, who cleverly manages his master's life without neglecting his own comfort. At the film's end, when the screenwriter threatens to violate the rules of worldliness by falling in love, Jean-Paul saves him from the folly of earnestness by bedding the lady himself. The writer does not take this kindness...
...most Iranians seemed confident that their revolution would succeed. Even among the wealthy or those once loyal to the Shah, there was growing respect for a revolution that had been brought about, not through arms, but through civil disobedience and the sustained withdrawal of labor. Said an Iranian civil servant, himself still loyal to the Shah: "Sometimes there is a revolution from the top and it's not right. This is a revolution from the people, and it's going to be good for the future of Iran. Those people who withdrew their dollars and put them...