Word: tyrant
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President Nixon will not tell them that their country is destroying Vietnam to protect a corrupt and despicable tyrant who fought with the French army against his own people in 1954. He will not tell them that President Thieu and his string of predecessors have failed to win the support of the people of South Vietnam because they realize that they need only the support of the United States to remain in power. He will not tell them that Viet Minh (the direct ancestor of the National Liberation Front) was the only group to mount an effective resistance against...
Scenarist Serling's adaptation of Irving Wallace's novel is full of cheap chatter and the kind of bombast ("We cannot murder tyranny by murdering the tyrant") that even a Washington speechwriter might discard as overly florid. As portrayed by Jones, the hero is certainly fulsome enough to be a major political figure. Joseph Sargent's direction is energetic, consisting in large measure of dogging his actors with a mobile camera as they bolt through endless doorways along the corridors of power. -Jay Cocks
...working-class South Boston community of Dorchester, where Troy sat, there was a growing feeling that the judge was becoming a local tyrant who dispensed a highly personal brand of justice. "Troy's heavy hand touches everyone in the community," said Donna Finn, a young mother and one of Troy's strongest critics. "If they haven't been in his court themselves, they have relatives or neighbors who have." But what could they...
...lovers are Charles and Helene (Perkins and Marlene Jobert), the adopted children of a dotty millionaire tyrant named Theo Van Horn (Welles). Papa has used his fortune to re-create meticulously the year 1925. "It was an exciting time to be alive," he explains over his nightly gourmet repast, glaring balefully around the table at anyone who might offer a contradiction. Charles has to romp about the estate in knickers, but takes some solace in sculpting huge, brooding Olympian figures. Helene is something of a stiff, a quality convincingly conveyed by Miss Jobert, who shuffles through the film...
However, Martin Schechter as Mr. Maraczek, the shop owner, is probably too consistently good-natured to be taken for the crusty tyrant he's supposed to be. And as Steven Kodaly, the closest thing the show has to a villian, Charles Seymour, waxed mustache not-withstanding, is a bit too charming to be properly villanous. Paul D. Seltzer, as a campy maitre'd, contributes one of the production's highlights in a number called "Romantic Atmosphere" and George Birnbaum runs a close second with "Perspective," his Thorton-Wilderesque observation on the place of man in the universe. As the delivery...