Word: totalitarian
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Born in pre-World-War-II Czechoslovakia, Forman is the child of victims of the Holocaust. Heavily influenced by the totalitarian oppression he witnessed, he chose to celebrate the freedom of the United States in his latest work. Prior to "Larry Flynt," Forman has enjoyed a prolific directing career and has twice received the Oscar for best director: first for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and again for "Amadeus...
...Germans have no hard evidence of criminality but an abiding fear of extremism in any form. The Christian Democrats call Scientology "totalitarian." A Social Democratic member of the Bundestag says it is "fascist." When a German delegation met with U.S. officials on the issue late last year, the Americans argued that if there is evidence of illegality, the Scientologists should be prosecuted under existing laws. The Germans replied that, well, there wasn't enough evidence for a trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous...
...kingdom long before the Europeans arrived. A Tutsi god-king headed an elaborate system of civil administration, taxation and military conscription that the Germans and Belgians left largely intact, even as they tightened the screws. When independence came, with a 1959 Hutu revolution, the new rulers inherited a near totalitarian state...
...Nazi--a member of the German Nazi Party, or a contemporary who holds to its principles, namely the superiority of the "Aryan race," the need to exterminate the Jewish People, the need for totalitarian control of the state...
...faces hidden in the mock-wall of the set. At numerous other times, listening characters have their backs to the audience so that their facial reactions are hidden. Michael H. Yeargen's set design and Catherine Zuber's costumes have conspired to trap both house and family in one totalitarian color scheme, a choking beige, perhaps literalizing the overwhelming entrapment the characters feel-- certainly forcing the audience to want to escape...