Word: inquisitor
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...Smith's lieutenants is J. Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, the director of worldwide purchasing, who reportedly has been handed the assignment of reducing GM's supplier costs at least 20%, or $100 million a week. Lopez, 51, a veteran of GM Europe, has become known as "the Grand Inquisitor." In only four months, he has rankled many of GM's leading suppliers by reopening existing contracts and dispatching his teams of subordinates through supplier factories to preach productivity in one-week workshops. Lopez says he has already transformed more than 100 of GM's 2,500 suppliers, boosting their productivity...
...genius for the intimacies of personal-redemption chat. It formalizes the primitive newspaper gossip column into a ceremony and a sacrament. The Archpriestess Barbara Walters comes with producer and camera crew to hear confession. She is empowered to grant absolution on behalf of the American people, playing first Inquisitor, then Fairy Godmother in the space of a segment. There are other clergy: the Archpriestess Diane Sawyer, the Archpriestess Oprah Winfrey. Credible Cardinal of High Policy and Emergency Confessions (" . . . better come clean, call Nightline") is Ted Koppel. Then there is His Grace Phil Donahue, the barking, mike-ready Bishop of Prurience...
...what did the grand inquisitor himself have to say? No comment...
INTERROGATION. A Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) is arrested and tortured by the state, then bears her inquisitor's child -- a poignant metaphor for a generation of Poles sired in fear. Ryszard Bugajski's political horror movie, banned for eight years, plays like a suicide note smuggled out of the Gulag...
...past cannot be grasped in sequence." Realism, too, is all thumbs. In order to re-create the bizarre atmosphere of his KGB interrogation, the author restages the experience as a one-act farce. Karl could have been one of the Marx Brothers. Some typical dialogue between writer and inquisitor...