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...sight before boxing an unruly Royal baby on the ear (the young rascal Prince Andrew once got a black eye from an exasperated footman, but the Queen said nothing). Competition for prestigious jobs, like serving at state banquets, can be fierce, and the slightest brashness inevitably leads to a servant's being "sacked...
...Guard if he wants to put his own younger men in. Unless he is very powerful, it looks as though we must do some waiting before we see results. Russians like to have a strong leader. As one of our poets wrote: 'The more you beat a servant, the more he will love his master.' Gorbachev sounds as if he is to be respected. He must be full of energy and have power behind him to have got so far so young. He did well in England, and he has two diplomas...
...words of Mikhail Gorbachev last week, "a faithful servant of our party and people, a staunch champion of the ideals of Communism." That final tribute to Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was in keeping with the official adulation that enveloped the late Soviet leader during the 13 months that he ruled in the Kremlin. But there was always a hollow ring to the praise...
...Britain's archaic security laws. Particularly under attack is the Official Secrets Act of 1911, which allows the government to withhold details of its activities, no matter how insignificant, simply by claiming that anything not officially released is a state secret. Under the law, any civil servant who reveals such secrets, as well as any journalist who publishes them, is subject to arrest and, if convicted, to a maximum sentence of two years in prison...
...slightly mottled gloom, punctuated occasionally by the lurid light of a blood-red sky. Furtive figures frantically seek to escape this depressing darkness, a darkness that almost becomes a metaphor for Quint's malevolence. Clever special effects make the two ghosts seem especially spectral. While the evil former man-servant appears and vanishes high at the top of the tower. Miss Jessel is lit from below, a technique which illuminates her grotesquels painted face and casts an abnormally immense black shadow on the ceiling of the room. We are continually reminded by the lighting, as well as the words...