Word: corruptable
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...will probably disappoint those who see Hair hoping for a jolting dose of Sixties political fervor. Except for an introductory audio-visual mood-setter, the political radicalism remains muddled throughout the show and seems severely dated when it does emerge briefly. The "don't-draft-my-ass" response to corrupt foreign policy is no longer fitting or sufficient; we already know America hasn't always worn the white hat. Likewise, the drive for uniform civil rights has gone beyond merely pointing out that Blacks exist and have concerns and emotions of their...
DIED. Joseph Peel Jr., 58, Florida municipal judge convicted in 1961 of helping to murder a superior judge who was threatening to reveal Peel's corrupt practices on the bench; of cancer; in Jacksonville. Peel denied having his accuser weighted down and thrown into the sea from a rented boat. But on his deathbed he owned up to knowing about it: "I'm guilty of not using my influence to stop what was going to happen, and I could have...
Before his nomination, Donovan served as executive vice president in charge of labor relations at Schiavone. In May the firm said it had hired detectives to investigate the background of those looking into Donovan's involvement with mobsters and corrupt union officials as well as to find out, as an attorney for the firm put it, "who is deliberately leaking information to the media to prejudice an ongoing investigation...
...tells me a story, and I know that second: I must make a movie out of it," he once said. Inspired by Brecht and Hollywood soap operas, his often autobiographical scripts dealt with the theme of power in contemporary society and reflected his view that individuals and classes inevitably corrupt one another...
...That, in part, was how the New Journalism was born. From barroom, cloakroom and police station, Breslin cut slices of life in which big guys squeezed little guys; people who read too many books didn't know what they were talking about; and politicians were vain, greedy and corrupt-except Bobby Kennedy, who got shot as Breslin watched. Nobody wrote a better eyewitness piece about the assassination...