Word: tyrant
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...ANOTHER LEVEL, the public opening of the green has released a spate of vindictive behavior toward the Fly Club, and final clubs in general. Last Friday, for example, Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 "danced triumphantly in the garden," as though celebrating the ousting of a tyrant...
Sitting more or less alone in his suite at a luxury hotel in the French lakeside resort of Talloires, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier remained a tyrant without a country. France's government, waging an uphill battle to win legislative elections next month, is anxious indeed to unload the former Haitian dictator. With here's-your-hat bluntness, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius snapped, "We want him to leave as quickly as possible." The U.S., which provided a military transport to fly Duvalier and his entourage into exile three weeks ago, refuses to give Baby Doc asylum. Liberia, the only nation...
...betrothed, proves to be a real downer: he steals Celie's mail, sleeps around with other women, and makes his wife do ninety-percent of the work on their farm. At the film's halfway point, Celie is still cleaning vividly-hued ketchup and mustard stains while the tyrant goes off to try to rekindle an old romance with a famous blues singer...
...transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some of the film's most engaging moments are those featuring the minor and often humorous characters that Walker used to show the absurdity of Celie's situation...
...perceives that man pays a deadly price whenever he seeks to dominate another because the other invariably rises up to destroy his oppresser. The oppresser can never hope for a moment's peace. His enemies are constantly behind his back, waiting for an opportune moment to grasp at the tyrant's throat. Baldwin makes it his self-appointed mission to convince people, Black and White, that the price of class antagonism is not worth its benefits--benefits which in the end come only to nothingness...