Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration officials now fear that what they expected to be a textbook study in swiftly dislodging a tyrant will turn into a bloody, drawn-out struggle. "The assumption was that despite all his defects, he cared about the welfare of Panama," says a State Department official. "Well, Noriega cares exclusively about Noriega, and he will use every means at his disposal to hold...
...this guideline, Gen. Manuel "Pineapple" Noriega, the thief-king of Panama, is not an honest politician. True, he is many things besides. He is a drug-dealer, murderer, petty tyrant, arms dealer, money launderer, and thief. All and all, an unsavory character. Not a strong candidate for canonization...
...nine children, including Ian, and assorted spouses and their children. All are neurotic, vengeful and desperate for money, because Malcolm refuses to sweeten their small trust funds. The author's scheme neatly turns the King Lear plot inside out, observing the wreckage strewn about the heath when an aging tyrant fails to hand over power and wealth to his children...
...tragic phantasmagoria," uses allegory, fantasy and surrealism to evoke the terror of a totalitarian system. His central character is Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a provincial town. Varlam combines Stalin's close-cropped haircut, Hitler's mustache and Mussolini's black shirt to embody the image of a universal tyrant. Although the setting and time are undefined -- secret police appear alternately as medieval knights or spear-wielding Roman centurions -- there is no doubt that the real subject is Stalinism...
...offending grave robber, a woman whose parents had been arrested and killed by Varlam, and take her to trial. Her testimony, studded with flashbacks and Fellini-like dream sequences, tells the story of Varlam's brutal reign. There are false denunciations, mass arrests and mad ravings by the tyrant, who utters such Newspeak absurdities as "Four out of every three persons is an enemy of the people...