Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good time for American journalism, he feels. "Most of the papers were completely corrupt: their policies were dictated by their advertisers. . . . But there were a great many papers in those days--New York had sixteen dailies--and papers thrive on competition. Nowadays each city has only one or two daily papers, and no new ones are being started--that's not the way it should...
What Williamson possesses in tem perament and character is size (there is no pettiness in him), the arrogance if not the elegance of a prince, irascibility (Hamlet's fed-upness with a corrupt court and its fawning fools and knaves), and above all ardor, not unmixed with seething contempt. This is a Hamlet who scoffs and snarls and wields the so liloquies like a switchblade...
...sober posture, the film is hooked on its participants. It stays too long at the graphic garroting; it details too lovingly the good old days when a "hit" (a decreed death) cost a fast 75 bucks. It forgives the criminal because, though he is endemically corrupt, he is thoroughly dramatic...
...tongue . . . What did she do? What did they say to each other? What was it like to do it? For me in the jail, for Margaret in our drawing room, those questions boiled up: out of a curiosity which was passionate, insistent, human and at the same time corrupt...
...rate, President Nguyen Van Thieu has all but eclipsed him) and added: "While Ky is playing around in the plush spots of Paris and haggling over whether he is going to sit at a round table or a rectangular table, American men are dying to prop up his corrupt regime." Ky's Special Assistant, Dang Huc Khoi, said that the Vice President had no intention of "joining Mr. McGovern in the gutter," but he did note that Ky had been out only once before the reception-to dine with Ambassador Harriman-and that he occupies a house with...