Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gregory Sandow had fine moments as an ominous Grand Inquisitor, a stony-faced lecher, and a jovial torturer. The rest of the gondoliers and contadine (gondoliers' playmates) danced and sang with polish unusual in a chorus...
...tribute a Carbonnaux that from the moment the film begins one feels the retelling was inevitable, Voltaire's Spanish Inquisitor is now a totalitarian dictator, his missionaries in Paraguay have become imperialists in Borneo. Candide's protest, "No, I don't love the king, because I've never seen him" is as futile as it ever...
...first time since the scandals, a network ventured a return to the big money quiz, with contestants competing for $100,000 on an ABC show called 100 Grand. The master of cere monies behaved like an inquisitor, suggesting that nothing could possibly go wrong, honesty-wise. Something did go wrong. Nobody was watching. The show has already folded...
...these sophistications are necessary only if (foolishly) you wish to be honest. It is far preferable to let your inquisitor reveal his program first, then o'ertop it with your...
From the time, at 26, when he exploded into the nation's headlines as chief staff inquisitor for Senator Joe McCarthy, Lawyer Roy Marcus Cohn has looked like a young fellow who would certainly go places. He still does...