Word: successor
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Gregory Peck's Atticus is an especially hard act to follow, but Jewison found a superb successor in the person of Al Pacino. Pacino, who plays Arthur Kirkland, the film's do-good hero, first made the big time as Michael in The Godfather. He made it again as the run down hero of Serpico thee years ago, but there's been a drought since. Now comes Arthur Kirkland, who works perfectly for Pacino because he's a blend of Michael Corleone and Serpico. Like Corleone, Kirkland wants to do everything himself; like Serpico, he's a man fighting society...
...Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Powers details how the CIA, on orders of five presidents, had sabotaged elections, overthrown governments, destroyed men and movements, and routinely interfered in the internal affairs of other countries--spending unknown fortunes in the process. And presiding over the treasonous disclosures was Helms' successor (after James Schlesinger '50's short reign) William Colby, reluctant, but cooperative as the secret history became--to an extent--public knowledge...
...simple, warm homily. For a week, America stopped for him. The granite monuments and the country-of-many-crises blurred in the background of his presence, all the analyses were mere enatter. Who is he? "A pilgrim of faith," he answered in Boston. A mission to America, "a successor of Peter." The Pope who lived, who lives. The Pope who came with a message and left America all by itself, and suddenly there is a catharsis to be found in the ponderous eyes of those who watched--bums, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Moonies, pagans, Carters--that is rooted beneath the careers...
...socialist cause since the founding of the People's Republic," the Cultural Revolution "plunged our country into divisiveness and chaos abhorred by the people, into blood baths and terror." The scapegoats explicitly singled out were the late Lin Biao (Lin Piao), once Mao's chosen successor, and Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing), Mao's widow and ringleader of the "Gang of Four." Still, Ye was clearly pointing at Mao when he stated that "leaders are not gods; they are not infallible and therefore should not be deified...
...Henry II's successor...