Word: wield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Roger Young stretches a thin plot which involves Scotland Yard, the F.B.I., and (of course) Nazis, by punctuating it with a hackneyed score and stagey walk-ons: Clusters of bowler-hatted extras mill around aimlessly, while "protesters" wield suspiciously well-stenciled placards. In addition to its amateurism, the film is cheapened by gratuitous flashes of boob and rump' by its main performers (Selleck, Jane Seymour, and Lauren Hutton...
...major Democratic campaign managers are men. Of the other women advisors apparently only two press secretaries, Maxine Isaacs for Walter Mondale and Kathy Bushkin for Gary Hart, wield any real influence. Similarly for the 'consultants" and other heavyweights who gravitate around campaigns: They are mostly men and this augurs ill for women's hopes in a Democratic cabinet...
...size of this pool and thus the power that the money managers wield have grown prodigiously. In 1950 pension funds held $17 billion. Today they are a $1 trillion treasure trove. By 1995 the total is expected to reach $3 trillion. Through these funds, some 60 million Americans own about 30% of all the equity capital in U.S. corporations. That makes a mockery of Karl Marx's prediction that capitalism would end in revolution as fewer and fewer people owned the means of production...
...harp on Reagan's violation of "international law" and ignore or cheerlead his "war on communism." The Reaganites glory in "illegal" "covert" actions like the raids on Nicaragua so long as they are successful. The bellicose Democratic Party "doves" raise a stink over "illegalities" only so they can wield their constitutional right to declare war as they recently did, authorizing the Marines to remain in Lebanon for at least another 18 months. International law is manifestly subordinate to U.S. imperialism's class interests. Students who have other illusions should recall the words spoken a century ago by the German chancellor...
...city of Amritsar is a sacred place, and its holiest sanctuary is the Golden Temple, a resplendent 72-acre compound that is known to the faithful as the City of Joy. These days it more closely resembles a city of death. Inside the temple compound, fierce Sikh warriors wield submachine guns, guarding against encroachment by government security forces. Outside, the security men keep a nervous vigil, all too aware that the bodies of murdered comrades often turn up in the warren of tiny streets around the shrine...