| 单词 | corrupt |
| 例句 | He turned off the TV and gave us a huge lecture about how “media like that is a corrupting influence” and “indecent behavior” blah blah blah. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I had heard from adults that this was a revolutionary war, a liberation of the people from corrupt government. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z That is all of what was “in the balance,” the nostalgic moment’s corrupt and unspeakable core. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew, Úrsula gave birth to a son who had all of his features human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z His office was in Staten Island in a two-family firetrap just four blocks away from the ferry stop and only one block south of a supermarket, three beauty parlors, and two corrupt druggists. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers—how the public school system was corrupt so she was teaching her children herself, at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Minerva gives me her speech about how Dinorah’s a victim of our corrupt system, which we are helping to bring down by giving her some of our milk fudge. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States, committed to stopping the further spread of communism, backed the government of South Vietnam; it was corrupt and unpopular, but firmly non-communist. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The very desire of it corrupts the heart. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Besides, I had known my fair share of corrupt officials both in the Levee and back in the old country. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “He’s decided the scientists are corrupt and the whole sunblock industry is a moneymaking fraud,” says Mirren. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It would be good for us to work again. It is not fitting that men should corrupt themselves in hunger and idleness.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who were formally students or involved in professions such as civil service, medicine, art, or teaching are considered morally corrupt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was evidence that Johnson knew Americans were dying to prop up a South Vietnamese government that was corrupt and unpopular. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The officers there assume that all cops from New Orleans are corrupt, he said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “You’re right. I shouldn’t be corrupting you on our first date. Seriously, no worries. And no pressure. I enjoy a glass of wine with dinner once in a while, that’s all.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Maybe they’d tried to fight the corrupted with fire—or maybe the corrupted had tried to smoke them out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z All these things are intended to change good young socialists into corrupt revisionists. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And even if we could, the system was so corrupt, it would have been futile. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It’s only now that he’s been corrupted that I can fully appreciate the real Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The tall trees still stood inside, but their leaves were shriveled and their bark was turning moldy and corrupt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They have led corrupt lives and must be trained to be productive workers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I think Mom and Dad think Alex is a corrupting influence. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “When a body is left alone after death, in a state of desecration, the soul becomes corrupted,” he said, as though I hadn’t even spoken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He once told me that football is built on violence and racism, and it is corrupting and exploiting kids in low-income neighborhoods. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The mayor was a corrupt boor, the food turned your guts runny, but he held a good thought for them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The whole system of capitalistic democracy is—rotten and corrupt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z White had come to understand that prejudiced and corrupt white citizens would not implicate one of their own in the killing of American Indians, and so he decided to change his strategy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Though I did not like his looks, I could not say his face appeared corrupted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They had been halfhearted tokens of penance, insincere, corrupt gestures meant more for his own appeasement than hers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In México the police were corrupt and often powerless. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The reports that label my family as corrupt, power- hungry, moralizing dictators? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Some of them corrupted me with nicotine, drugs, and alcohol. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I’m corrupt to the bones.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z What the classical music world realized was that what they had thought was a pure and powerful first impression—listening to someone play—was in fact hopelessly corrupted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The experiment seemed to demonstrate the way even seemingly decent people could be corrupted by undue authority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That we tour London’s loops and hope to find someone still at home? And what would you say the odds are that the corrupted, who are looking for us, would leave all those loops unguarded?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was as if, when I sang, Dad forgot for a moment that the world was a frightening place, that it would corrupt me, that I should be kept safe, sheltered, at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Many people were tired of the spoils system that rewarded corrupt politicians. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “She was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Yes. The League of Concerned Library Lovers will make certain that the new Alexandriaville Public Library undertakes a major course correction and no longer subjects children to corrupting influences and mindless frivolity.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Arm could sense the spirit: an old, corrupt warthog grown fat on the flesh of its young. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the story I’m reading, Isaiah Dunn just got pulled out of class by secret agents, who tell him he needs to go undercover at a championship basketball game to expose a corrupt principal. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what it is, but people keep rushing around, talking quietly, and Jeanine gives speeches about how corrupt Abnegation is all the time, almost every day.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Yeah. How could I possibly know what a corrupt faction looks like? I’m just training to be Dauntless, for God’s sake,” I say. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “It’s all right, Director,” he said in a tone of faint derision, “I won’t corrupt them.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It shouldn’t shock me that the Court of Faerie is corrupt and kind of gross. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even my dad, who, whenever politics came up, usually dismissed the entire topic with his patented line, “All politicians are equally corrupt,” showed an interest this year. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “If childhood stories can be corrupted even here, at the top of Isihlangu, that gash in the sky is indeed a threat to us. Bring the Story Box!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Even if it was the most corrupt and ostentatious court in Erilea, it sounded dreadfully romantic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the few years he had remaining it would corrupt his other senses until at last only his bird-screech voice would remain, and then that would expire, too. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Still another accused Teacher Wang of attempting to corrupt a young revolutionary by buying her some bread when he learned that she had not eaten lunch. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Angkar says they are model citizens because many have never ventured out of their village and have not been corrupted by the West. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been using those freaky necklaces they’d worn during the battle in the valley to not only absorb power from other witches but to influence the Grans through powerful and corrupted magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z "Are you implying, sir, that the medical profession is corrupt?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z On a daily basis he commented on Haitian poverty, history, and culture, as well as the long-standing American habit of lavishing aid on corrupt dictators such as Baby Doc Duvalier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A fearful and delicate problem, which compromises, when it does not corrupt, all the American efforts to build a better world—here, there, or anywhere. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z They are hunted like animals by corrupt police, bandits, and gang members deported from the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “He says that you are corrupting the party with your ideas,” I was told. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the United States might develop into a nation of laws and established institutions capable of surviving corrupt or incompetent public officials. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They said I would be a corrupting influence. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred and twenty sunrises, one hundred and twenty more times he has to drag his corrupted body out of a bed and button it into a uniform. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Raizel believed that society as a whole was corrupt, and that true freedom and liberty would only be achieved once the power structure was dismantled completely and capitalism abolished. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z No one can, because the text is corrupt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Dirt was in every corner, angle, crevice of the monstrous stove, and lived behind it in delirious communion with the corrupted wall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And, though highlighted already, the words “angels have corrupted” were also circled in black ink. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I suppose corrupting me was everyone's favorite pastime in my family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Ma’am, we don’t care at Easons.We’d rather lose large amounts than have the people of Limerick and Ireland corrupted by this filth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her own heart was beating in union to the one that floated before her, blue and corrupt . . . three mounts must you ride . . . one to bed and one to dread and one to love . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The theory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Guards who tried to crack down on inmate drug use were subject to death threats—purportedly by corrupt officers, according to one guard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think they wish I would just go away and not corrupt good girls like you.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He was trying to acculturate himself to a world that corrupted healthy human development in every way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lozano doubts, however, that even his corrupt officers would pick poor migrants to rob. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then God spoke to Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch, instructing him to save his family and the animals from the great flood that would cleanse the Earth of the corrupted humans. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Others offered less charitable impressions, dubbing Harvey "a bloated alcoholic with the manners of a comically corrupt cop." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It reflected his genuine conviction that England was an inherently corrupt society, the bastion of monarchical power, aristocratic privilege, and courtly intrigue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His body was carried out to the shed, where it corrupted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Many regarded the Sihanouk government as corrupt and self-serving, where the poor got poorer and the rich became richer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Myers insisted that there were other people besides him and Kelly involved in the Pittman murder, including a corrupt local sheriff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The right people were being overrun by the wrong people, they argued, and the right genes corrupted by the wrong ones. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Do not corrupt the Queen Phantoms with your filth! Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z In matches between two supposedly corrupt wrestlers, the wrestler who was on the bubble won about 80 percent of the time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And just to complicate matters perfecdy, I was starting to feel responsible for their safety and happiness and got panicked at the idea of them being captured or corrupted by the outside world. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the Erudite and the corrupt Dauntless leaders will look for us, and we will have to move on. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Young people were rebelling against a society they thought was violent, corrupt, and immoral. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Yes, Nigeria very corrupt. Worst corrupt country in Africa. Me, I watch the film but no, I don’t go to Nigeria!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I know what she is thinking: of upright men in homburg hats, of black silk umbrellas and the corrupting rains of northern latitudes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason Dad was having a tough time getting steady work—as he kept trying to tell us—was that the electricians’ union in Phoenix was corrupt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As Shin and Park did their rounds in the garment factory, Park explained that Hwang had criticized Kim Jong U for turning North Korea into a corrupt feudal state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z According to the rumor, there is someone out there who is seeking out corrupt, despicable scythes...and ending their existence by fire. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What is the code of normalcy before it becomes corrupted by cancer’s coda? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That extra quarter-dollar would mean two more meals for my sisters, a fraction of a train ticket, or part of a bribe to pay off corrupt officials. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z If she went to Elowen, she would be tempted to join her and become as corrupt with power as Elowen herself. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They liked his talk of bringing back Islamic law, because everyone was frustrated with the slow, corrupt Pakistani justice system. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Yes, and as the apple’s fair outside finally shows its inner ruin, so evil thoughts in time corrupt a man’s features.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When the U.N. post was first conferred on him, my grandfather balked: he wanted no part of the corrupt regime. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We are studying how racist and sexist the media can be—it's soooooo corrupt! Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Might the fishes devour him, this dog of a Siddhartha, this madman, this corrupted and rotting body, this sluggish and misused soul! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I live here! You terrible girl corrupt my friend!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “I never said he was stupid. Only corrupt.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, Minerva made excuses about how Dinorah learned bad civic habits from a corrupt system. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "If I was not corrupted long since, growing up in Alsatia among thieves and beggars, then I must be incorruptible." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Liccaro, with its corrupt regents and impoverished people, would be easy pickings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Oppressed for centuries, divided, hopeless, corrupted, misled, they were cynical—as I had once been—and the Communist method of unity had been found historically to be the only means of achieving discipline. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know who our parents are. You know who our friends are. Susan’s dad, you think he’s corrupt?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The sole right he wanted was to be left alone, unmolested by the IRS and corrupt city inspectors and street criminals, so he could just run his stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Middle-class progressives, disgusted by the corrupt politics of both Thompson and Sweitzer, threw their weight behind an independent reformer. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It is all nonsense, partially corrupted—just like the file Tremaine had sent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The laws were intended for her benefit—to protect her from the corrupting influence of the black man and the “tragedy” of mulatto children—but she was directly harmed nonetheless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While this convoluted structure of race and class profited the black elite, it would be wrong to label Spaulding, Merrick, and the rest as corrupt. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They had worked hard to eradicate customs that had begun to corrupt their society, banning even seemingly benign diversions such as a gaming machine, a simple gambling device that spit out candy to its winners. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The spore expanded, split, and burst within the corrupted steel and shards of concrete that had formerly been walls. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Disputes among groups of corrupt soldiers periodically lead to fistfights and shootouts, according to a number of defectors and reports by aid groups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “But never in the Cursed Forest. Magic here is corrupted and weird, and it’s not safe to use it if you haven’t completely mastered it.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Then it’s the ethnic Vietnamese, Chinese, and other minority groups who are considered racially corrupt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You can be the eyes and the ears of the Holy Church in the corrupt world we live in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Much of his wealth, though, flowed from the deeply corrupt “Indian business”—the swindling of millionaire Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Writing about how corrupt the civilian government was, as if they think the military will not be corrupt. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Haiti would always be a desperately poor, corrupt, broken society. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He said he hadn’t kept me out of the public school for all these years just to see me corrupted on a stage. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We’ve watched Macbeth change from a noble, trusted, dedicated soldier, willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, to a wretched, depraved, corrupt murderer who no longer has feelings of guilt or morality. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A faint, corrupt perfume hung in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sponging,” an old race- fixing technique from racing’s corrupt days, threatened horses’ lives. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Other times he was that red Devil who lurks on the Underwood ham cans, self-satisfied and corrupt in his bow tie, mustache, and arrow-point tail. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Reese, for example, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals described a drug task force completely corrupted by its dependence on federal drug money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “When we unite the kingdoms under one rule, we’ll make sure that never happens. We’ll make sure no one is ever again corrupted by the power of the Book.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He was so crazy that he corrupted sane men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As if she reads my thoughts, Mother Ermentrude continues her lesson, saying, “Our wills, however, are corrupt and often lead us astray. But a will that is holy is a joy to submit to.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z He recruited his army from the foulest criminals ever vomited up by corrupt prison systems anywhere in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Did the teachers really intend to ruin our health and corrupt our minds? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z American life had so corrupted their consciousness that they were unable to recognize their friends when they saw them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a private place, a sanctuary, already corrupted by the Capitol’s evil. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “The quality or condition of being depraved or corrupt, ” Rahel read, with a row of sternmouthed nuns seated behind her and a sea of sniggering schoolgirl faces in front. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the groups didn’t get along and were led by corrupt warlords with unsavory reputations. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Secrecy is a form of power, and power corrupts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So if sumo wrestlers, schoolteachers, and day-care parents all cheat, are we to assume that mankind is innately and universally corrupt? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The same thing happened to those emperors who came to power from being private citizens by corrupting the soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Martin was perhaps the first public advocate of the “covenant with death” interpretation of the Constitution, as well as the first former delegate to denounce the Sectional Compromise as a corrupt bargain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “No, instead, you corrupt kids who don’t know any better, who have nowhere else to go. You use them.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But when it was put into practice, particularly when it was placed in the hands of corrupt leaders, it became a much different system from that which was originally espoused. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps Hamlet wanted me to leave this evil place, lest I be corrupted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “And prisons have power-thirsty, corrupt guards, just like schools have teachers.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The corrupt half grin was a new thing too. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In an era in which the sport’s corrupt years were still a fresh memory, it was enough to set the ball rolling. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he mean say "yes" because he knew that the principle was greater than the men, greater than the numbers and the vicious power and all the methods used to corrupt its name? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If Jeanine can make people believe that my father and all the other Abnegation leaders are corrupt and awful, she has support for whatever revolution she wants to start, if that’s really her plan. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was corrupt and demeaning, another way of repressing prisoners in general and political prisoners in particular. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Were teachers as corrupt as the villains you read about in books or saw in movies and television? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Point is,” he said, “if corrupted get rest of ymbrynes, they become unstoppable.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He was deluded by obsession; his logic and reasoning became corrupted, irrational, and increasingly dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The kind of frown I’d have expected from a mother who thinks I corrupted her daughter. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Just because Hitler speaks German doesn’t mean that the language is corrupt. It’s the most important scientific language in the world. What are you looking at me like that for?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Nearly 30 years ago, I was part of the generation of children that “The Simpsons” was bound to corrupt. ‘Black Monday’ Plays the Wall Street Crash for Laughs 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z At the moment, some insist that "there will be no World Cup," saying a corrupted event should be disrupted in the name of other progressive social causes. Brazilian artist's image of starving child kicks up a World Cup storm 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z But “Harlem Shuffle” is laced with intimations that classism and racism are conspiring to corrupt the city. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z It refuses to portray Afghans as frightening terrorists, pathetic victims, corrupt leaders or hapless opioid addicts. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z "Television is quite corrupt and we are all guilty of it," Flintoff added. TV industry 'quite corrupt' with reality stars, says Channel 4 executive 2011-08-27T13:18:00Z I feel like "patriotic," "moral," "Christian," these words have been corrupted. What comedian Pete Holmes knows about the self and love, and self love 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z That is why the criminal justice system is vulnerable to serious reform because the only thing obstructing serious reform is corrupt vested interest profiting from the broken status quo we have. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z "They corrupted my whole image and the way I think of police." City settles over rogue cops' shakedown 2012-02-04T02:50:00Z From plastic surgery and cloning to corrupt politics and the spread of militarism, her novels explore subjects that are both topical and controversial. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z At one point he describes the militias organized by the corrupt cops as “mafias,” and at times the movie suggests a cruder version of “The Godfather,” especially “Part 2.” | 'Elite Squad: The Enemy Within': ?Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,? From Brazil - Review 2011-11-10T23:40:07Z In the series’ best parts, Ms. Goldberg engages a paradox: Meyerism may be an exploitative scam, but its members believe and want to do good with it, even the corrupt Cal. Review: In ‘The Path,’ a Cult Is Only as Strong as Its Following 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The new director brings only good will, not a capacity to change the corrupt allocation of the hunting lands. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z He plays Joe Coughlin, a corrupt policeman’s son who runs with the bad boys in 1920s Prohibition Boston and falls for the girlfriend of his ruthless boss. Ben Affleck: ‘My wildest dreams have come true, but at a price’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z This also is a story about fraught journey any well-intentioned person faces when attempting to change a corrupt system from within. "Education" culminates Amazon's "Small Axe" film series, finding beauty in the necessary struggle 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The unnamed Company, like a malignant tumor, has spread across and corrupted not only the surrounding City but branching timelines, alternate versions of the world. ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer Delivers Fresh Horrors 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z He showed slave traders, fascists, corrupt policemen and factory bosses victimizing the poor and other innocents, in tales with ominous titles like “Gods’ Man” and “Wild Pilgrimage.” Antiques: Motown Piano Restored - Postcard Books - Film on Lynd Ward 2012-03-22T20:50:46Z Thneedville is a synthetic community with fake vegetation, run by the corrupt capitalist O'Hare, who grows rich by selling bottled air to the easily swayed inhabitants. Dr Seuss' The Lorax – review 2012-07-28T23:05:49Z A key part, alongside the Sopranos, The Wire and Deadwood, of the golden age of antihero drama, this thriller about likable – and utterly corrupt – cops broke new ground for bold, risk-taking television. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He is ready to step aside for Tannhäuser, until it becomes clear that his rival has corrupted his soul consorting with Venus. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But, mired in a corrupt court, he is incapable of dealing truthfully with others, and of being true to himself. Nicholas Hytner: With Shakespeare, the play is just a starting point 2013-04-12T09:01:01Z Its hallmarks are radioactive colors, corrupted sterile and spiritual imagery, and sheer painterly bravura. Art in Review: SHANNA WADDELL 2011-03-10T21:45:03Z Woody Guthrie thinks so, casting him as a Robin Hood figure demonised by a corrupt establishment. Readers recommend: songs about criminals ? results 2011-03-31T12:49:24Z He produced three comedies about corrupt government leaders and warlords. Somali comic received death threats before murder 2012-08-02T16:24:40Z Breaking Bad’s fairly straightforward moral paradigm—everyone’s corrupt, or at least corruptible—uses baldness as its benchmark. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z This year’s theme was “The Gilded Age,” a love letter to an era named for the thin layer of decorative gold that masked America’s corrupt, broken bits. Perspective | This is what the beginning of the end of the Roe era feels like 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Repressive and corrupt, the government had isolated Burma from the international community and mired the country in debt. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z Their daily lives are affected by, also by the actions of these corrupt police. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z For some reason, the Academy insists on a one-film-per-country rule, which places a large part of the decision-making process in the hands of film industries at least as corrupt and agenda-driven as our own. Arts & Leisure Preview: A Golden Age of Foreign Films, Mostly Unseen 2011-01-27T17:15:40Z If you are in a country with corrupt cops, contact the U.S. 10 common travel scams — and how to avoid them 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z God was a burning topic in Italy, where a corrupt Roman Catholic Church operated under the storm clouds of the Reformation. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The first season juxtaposed the concept of celebrity and power with morality while also tackling fascism and corrupt politics. Season 2 of Amazon hit ‘The Boys’ finds team on run from law 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z As a new, unexpected asset to the force - widely considered one of the country's most corrupt institutions - Kamaru started appearing regularly on TV talk shows in full uniform. Lip-synching Indonesia cop fired amid YouTube fame 2011-12-07T12:01:04Z Ro, on some level, has always believed that Starfleet is corrupt — just not as blatantly as it is now. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Gilda becomes Gina, a waitress, while renaissance intrigue is replaced with an atmosphere of corrupt malevolence reminiscent of David Peace's Red Riding series. Soul Man – review 2012-08-29T11:34:16Z After all, she destroyed their product by corrupting it with Hep V, stabbed their emissary with a shoe and decimated their corporation. RECAP: True Blood Watch: A Big Death Shakes Up the Season 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z For a moment we are in the land of “The Hunger Games,” whose cynical portrait of a corrupt ruling class suggests a dystopian Versailles of the future. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Over the past year, as our political culture has grown more coarse and corrupt, I’ve felt different things: sometimes, anger; often, bitter resignation; and occasionally, a bemused sense of pure absurdity. Perspective | What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of ‘shithole countries’? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet while “Guide” takes pains to point out how each of its characters has adapted or corrupted or abandoned the principles embodied by Gus, few of these revelations feel surprising or particularly necessary. | 'The Intelligent Homosexual?s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures': Debating Dialectics and Dad?s Suicide Plan 2011-05-06T13:00:05Z No producers or theatrical companies are officially attached yet, and no actors have been announced to play Napoleon, Snowball and their oppressed and corrupted barnyard pals. 'Animal Farm' Musical May Arrive Before Pigs Fly 2010-07-23T16:40:00Z Yes, the politics is corrupt, and I used to think it was machiavellian too – astute and with malice. Gael García Bernal: ‘Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. It’s hate discourse’ 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Power doesn’t have to corrupt, the film suggests; many come to it precorrupted, as well as ignorant, fatuous and heedless. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Benjamin Franklin even went so far as to predict that “the people shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z How to be a good man in a corrupt world. Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z In many ways, the widespread embrace of such cynical and corrupt tactics has backfired on the right. Anatomy of a right-wing hoax: A year later, the Planned Parenthood videos are still backfiring on the scammers 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He also wrote thousands of letters, many from far-flung islands that he romanticized as free from the corrupting modernism of the West. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The Post also shared a “special recognition” award with the New York Times for “ongoing coverage of Russia’s efforts to corrupt the U.S. electoral process.” The Washington Post wins Toner Prize for coverage of Alabama U.S. Senate race 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all — in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten. Behind the List: The Making of TIME?s Top 10 Books of the Year 2011-11-16T16:54:08Z There he finds himself embroiled in a complicated family crisis involving yakuza, samurai, corporate bosses and corrupt politicians. Movie Review: In ‘The Wolverine,’ Hugh Jackman Broods Again 2013-07-25T21:12:49Z “If the court decides you are corrupt, there is dirty money, absolutely understandable,” he said. French Authorities Seize Oligarch’s Painting Before It Leaves for Russia 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Inspector O is a complex, nuanced figure who understands that the regime he serves is corrupt, brutal and mendacious, but he remains loyal. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Ferver’s script toys with the Henry James themes of the story line: innocent America corrupted by Europe. Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss’s Bite) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The moral is that power corrupts, and corruption is fun. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z As April, the errant daughter of a corrupt political operative, Lohan makes her entrance in "Machete" passed out on a filthy mattress in a drug den surrounded by gun-toting ruffians. Lindsay Lohan returns to theaters, as naked junkie 2010-09-01T11:50:00Z Where, if you don't mess with the Communist Party, you can be as ruthless and as corrupt as you want to be. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z I don't know that Eliot was corrupted by his ideology, but I think he's a character who did something that was wildly unexpected. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z Vic and the corrupt cops he leads are just another one of those gangs, all be it better armed and with a badge to hide behind – hence the show's name. Box Set Club: The Shield 2011-08-23T11:40:27Z Let’s set aside the case of rich parents who bribe corrupt officials or donate huge sums to get their child into a good college. What’s Wrong With the Meritocracy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z It was very complacent, I think – you know, only foreigners were corrupt. Get Carter: In search of lost Tyne 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z About halfway through “The Boys,” one do-gooder supe tries to convince a corrupt corporate henchwoman to do the right thing, but she replies, uneasily, that she doesn’t have superpowers. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z In Mr. Spacey’s characterization Mr. Abramoff is less a villain than an exemplar of the corrupt Washington lobbying system. The Carpetbagger: For Kevin Spacey, a Reviled Lobbyist Is No Mere Villain 2010-12-16T20:44:04Z The papers would demonstrate corrupt collusion between police and journalists on a scale that would make Lord Leveson's hair stand on end! Soviet spies! Orgies! Trollops! Profumo publication plea perks peers up 2013-07-18T22:57:05Z Worse: this bunch has set a very ugly tone that’s corrupted how people with power and money behave in every corner of our culture. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Throughout the trip I was keenly aware of the moral issues involved in traveling in Myanmar, and attempted to avoid patronizing enterprises that are owned by the country’s corrupt elite. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z “A little older and it might corrupt you.” National Lampoon: the magazine that became a comedy empire 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Evans and Ms. Whelan instill the pas de deux with a sense of air and light without corrupting its spare, crystalline authority. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z In a four-minute spot, which aired on TV6 Tuesday, Oliver demanded that Warner spill everything he knows about the corrupt inner-workings of the organization to the public, just as he promised. John Oliver bought a Trinidad TV ad so he could eviscerate ex-FIFA villain 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z He wasn't in thrall to wealth, but making a study of how it was corrupting the country he loved. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Moralists believed that female bathers corrupted men and had hastened the fall of the Roman Empire. In Fort Lauderdale, a hall of fame to dive deep into Gregory Cowles, Book Review Preview Editor In this political climate, I considered revisiting “The Nun,” Denis Diderot’s scathing classic about an innocent teenager forced into a convent and systematically corrupted there. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Religious Fiction 2012-05-31T17:00:23Z The shamelessly corrupt local mayor wants the house demolished. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z They looked more nonplussed than corrupted as they left the Prince Charles cinema in London, flaunting their furs and velvet collars, not a plastic mac in sight. From the archive, 16 March 1973, Macs give 'Tango' a miss 2013-03-16T00:05:01Z The period tracked with the libretto’s dukes and duchesses while allowing Sher to explore “how a corrupt leadership infects a culture, infects how wealth and privilege dominate and squish people below it.” The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z An overwhelming majority of his supporters — as many as 85 percent of them — believe that the election was corrupted by “millions” of instances of malfeasance. A Kraken is loose in America 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z For example, looking ahead to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, is the administrative side of football any less corrupt than it was before? S?crates: 'Everyone who comes to Brazil falls in love with someone' 2010-06-12T23:14:00Z Put another way: “When the machine is corrupted, you are the grit that gums up the works.” Yoga’s Instagram Provocateur 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But as Alan Riding wrote in his book “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” Fry found himself in a “no man’s land of Gestapo spies, corrupt French police and refugees galore.” In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Chichikov is not only in government: The squeaking wheels of his carriage are audible wherever corrupt nonentities pawn human lives for petty comforts. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The videos are edited and released publicly in an effort to show what O’Keefe calls liberal bias or allegedly corrupt practices. ABC News suspends correspondent David Wright after comments about Trump coverage, socialism, in Project Veritas sting 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Everyone, heroes and villains, was caught up in the same corrupt system, that of an orchestra captivating everything it touched with its melodic lushness. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Over the past quarter-century I have known him as Malcolm X and Easy Rawlins, as a runaway slave and a corrupt LA cop. Denzel Washington: 'I don't want movie-star friends' 2013-01-24T13:05:52Z You going to bring down a corrupt president. “Oh my God, words hurt worse than anything”: Jennifer Weiner talks journalism, body image and brushing off the “you’re no Jonathan Franzen!” trolls 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Democratic National Committee spokesman Daniel Wessel says Trump is engaging in “name calling” by corrupting the party’s name. ‘The Democrat Party’: Trump needles the opposition by truncating its name 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The results recall Colby Caldwell’s series of digital abstractions based on a corrupted computer file, but in Dana’s work the corruption is intentional. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Her most righteous and potent barbs are reserved for the corrupt mals plundering their own country. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z “Inherently it’s a beautiful artistic expression when watched, but the gears that maneuver it and run it are inherently corrupt and also hurt the boxer,” Mr. Farrington said. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z There's the salty patois of seasoned sailors, the pompous self-righteousness of the corrupt traders, and the error-strewn English of the Japanese translators. 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel 2010-07-16T22:43:00Z “Tightrope” suggests why: a corrupt and uniquely cruel economy in which millions of underpaid or underemployed Americans cannot afford education, health care or housing. Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Jose won for her performance as a mother who falls prey to corrupt police after being forced to sell drugs to survive in "Ma' Rosa." Filipino Jaclyn Jose is best actress at Cannes Film Festival 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z As the teens begin to hang out together, Fran employs her unique perceptions and detects the possession infesting her friend’s mother: evidence of Beth’s corrupting influence. Review | ‘Lucifer’ writer Mike Carey continues to cement his status as a novelist 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The power of fame proves corrupting, and the movie begins a familiar bio-pic dig through wreckage caused by compensatory narcissism, self-medicating gluttony, and diva tantrums tossed in the shadow of the Hollywood sign. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Their old towns and cities had been crippled by the decline of heavy industry and corrupted by big business. Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z What he didn’t do was include Winner in his 2020 pardons, instead favoring dozens of corrupt politicians and criminal business executives — and even the four mercenaries convicted of murdering Iraqi civilians in 2007. Perspective | Reality Winner was the FBI’s ‘head on a pike’ for Trump. It’s time to set her free. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Carvello doesn’t throw herself a pity party; instead, “Anything for a Hit” is an indictment of a sleazy and corrupt industry. Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New Music Memoirs From Tina Turner and a Disillusioned Hit Maker 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Because I live now with people who don't have much money and whose job prospects are poor and who live with a corrupt government. A former advice columnist on the pain problem that persists and his enduring answer, 15 years later 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z He also rants with prophetic fury about how in the future the Islamic faithful will be corrupted by their secular neighbors, fall into heresy and neglect the holy ways of their ancestors. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Mambéty’s furious vision links the subjection of women to a corrupt legal system, economic oppression, and overarching, unredressed patriarchal misrule—and depicting the inner corruption and depravity that the system creates. What’s New on Streaming: Three Cinematic Tales of Patriarchal Misrule 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" follows the story of an autistic lawyer, while "The Penthouse" charts the lives of Seoul's wealthiest and often most corrupt residents. Netflix: Is mainstream content squeezing out the daring plots viewers originally fell for? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z In the corrupt state that is their country, their desire to leave may be a crime. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The fact that America's criminal justice system is corrupt, broken and punishes innocent people is a given for many Americans, especially black and brown people. True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s a conflict of shifting alliances involving a plethora of armed actors and ad hoc militias led by a corrupt cast of characters fighting wars within wars. Apocalypse then, now, always: the truth about violence in Leer, South Sudan 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z But many other Iraqis wanted to be free to be more Shiite, more Sunni Jihadist, more corrupt or just more powerful than the tribe or sect next door. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z These political cynics “think the whole system is corrupt,” she added. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Taken together with current allegations that he enriched family members by employing them in nonexistent jobs, the clothing freebies underscore the perception that he is elitist and corrupt. Of Price, Populism and Politics. Also, Pearls and Pants. 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Her protectors, known as the True Believers, turn, for some reason, to a death-row inmate to save her from the corrupt forces trying to use her for nefarious ends. NBC Announces 5 New Shows, With Familiar Names Attached 2013-05-09T22:32:31Z A predictable tale of innocence corrupted, based on a true story that's probably much more intriguing than this movie. May 23 at SIFF: 'The Oath,' 'Nowhere Boy,' 'Queen of the Sun' 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z “Chappie” — a movie about a machine with a soul crushed by corrupt humans — was playing at the Uptown, a distraction preventing workers from developing class consciousness. Yes, there are socialists in D.C. You just haven’t looked hard enough. 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In a recent interview via WhatsApp, the actor spoke passionately about economic inequality and housing in Mexico, how power corrupts, and making "Workforce." In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z And yet despite the show depicting how extreme wealth corrupts extremely, it has accrued fans among that demographic. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Six decades on, the award-winning author says that what he learned about storytelling from those allegedly morally corrupting American comics proved key to his bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy and his later fiction. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The watchdog said in a statement that providing others with refreshments and entertainment at an election event is “a corrupt conduct and a serious offence” and is against the elections ordinance. Hong Kong pop singer, activist arrested on corruption charge 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z It corrupts something in us as human beings. Clarke Peters: 'I was 15 when I first stuck out my thumb and ran away from home' 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z "I don't belong to any party, I just support anything I think is good for this sickly country and denounce anything I find false, despicable, dirty, corrupt and hypocritical," he said. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99 2011-04-30T15:28:34Z She tried to corrupt Robin, but it's not working, even as Marion. 'Once Upon a Time': A villain returns, a hero is born in 'Heart of Gold' 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Trump is repeating the playbook he used during his 2016 campaign, when he tried to paint his then-Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as corrupt and untrustworthy, mixing legitimate criticism of her past with unfounded conspiracy theories. Trump plugs son’s book while accusing Bidens of self-dealing 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Zelenskyy mined the humor of an ordinary man in a corrupt society riding his bike to the presidential palace, forgoing a pay raise and living at home with his mom. Comedy series starring Zelenskyy gets boost in popularity 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Obviously Nero is totally self-serving and hysterical and politically corrupt and dangerous. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z "There's more to Chicago than our corrupt politicians." Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z An independently financed action movie, which Mr. Ayer directed and helped write, “Sabotage” starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of corrupted drug enforcement agents who begin falling to an unknown assassin. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z But poachers may be the least of the animals’ problems, as a civil war rages around them and a British oil company with ties to corrupt officials also shows up. Category Close-Up: 'Citizenfour' Leads the Race for Best Documentary 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z His wealth comes from London's rubbish heaps, and when the son appears drowned the will devolves the money on to the working-class Mr and Mrs Boffin, who seem corrupted by their sudden affluence. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z By giving people the space to connect, Occupy showed that people power is the only force capable of shaking the foundation of our corrupt system. Student activism, reborn 2012-05-21T12:54:00Z But even if he is corrupt, how far does the corruption reach? ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z The officers belong to a new state police force meant to be more effective and less corrupt than its predecessors. Police arrested in thefts from Rivera crash site 2012-12-13T17:12:07Z The result was a show that managed to do both, providing helpful background introductions to international political malfeasance, corrupt lobbying practices, and the cultural impact of emerging trends both welcome and not. "Patriot Act" is the toughest show to lose right now 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z You're talking about the innocent people who have been victimized by corrupt people, whether they're the cops or lawyers or a negligent judicial authority. "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Does Meredith find something inherently corrupt in specifically "modern" love – or is his argument with the whole construct of romantic love throughout the ages? Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z He more recently played a corrupt Mexican drug lord in the 2010 film "Machete." Actor Steven Seagal trains Arizona posse on school security 2013-02-10T05:32:09Z "The Continental" opens up a corrupt world that is defined by its standards, a notion undercut by having its hotel represented by an objectively awful human of limited acting ability. Don't check into Peacock's John Wick spinoff "The Continental," not even to check out Mel Gibson 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Cop Land, in which he plays the hearing-impaired sheriff of a small town home to corrupt New York cops, is easily his finest performance. How Christophe Lambert went from action flops to arthouse acclaim 2010-06-17T21:30:00Z You see, in these straitened times, we've come to see wealthy elites as corrupt, shadowy figures over whom we have no control, and yet whose dealings are slowly stripping away everything we hold dear. Celebrity divas: the foolish, fabulous, not-so-fearsome rich 2012-11-15T16:25:36Z Now, thanks to the Internet, everybody buzzes, and your own first responses to films are often corrupted, if not pre-empted. A Searing First Encounter With David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Does he allow himself to be used by a corrupt police force? T.C. Boyle’s new novel takes us to America’s far-right edge 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Nearly every company that dances 19th century ballets uses edited, revised, hand-me-down editions — what literary scholars would call corrupt texts. The archaeology of dance: American Contemporary Ballet digs back to 1890 with revelatory results 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Then Colson learns that the stolen safe contained proof of illegal deals carried out by the businessman, Stagg and corrupt members of the state legislature. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The FBI's relationship with Bulger corrupted law enforcement, it corrupted city government, state government, state law enforcement, and it corrupted the culture and the media. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Viruses and failed upgrades and installs corrupt data. What to do if all your computer files go poof 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In the final dance number, a group of Falun Dafa followers, who wore blue and yellow and clutched books of religious teachings, battled for space in a public square with corrupt youth. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is far from responsible for how entertainment values have corrupted the political process. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z "In terms of the theme of the exhibition, my portrait is meant to convey a message that I am an abuser of power, corrupt and suffer political ineptness." Jacob Zuma goes to court over painting depicting his genitals 2012-05-21T14:42:29Z He added: “That’s why he gets cast as psychopaths and serial killers and corrupt cops. Because you can forgive Woody. He’s got that little twinkle in his eyes.” Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern and Dick Cavett at a Party for ‘Wilson’ 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “Not this corrupt horrible villain that he was made out to be. A very decent, honorable person,” Abramoff says in an interview from his Washington area home. Webb Hubbell, writing his way to reclamation It’s a sour piece; the dance referee here is sleazy and corrupt. Dance Review: Another Taylor Marathon: They Push Dancers, Don’t They? 2014-03-16T21:23:50Z Or Henry James, whose spirited innocents find love and its infinite possibilities of betrayal corrupting, but grow through the process? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Pondering his own world of developers and promoters and fellow-traveling bankers and corrupt officials, he said, “We became the suckers.” Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Jews and Muslims, in their estimation, are often also seen as equally and dangerous and corrupting, powerfully intent on wreaking havoc on Christian culture. How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z All of this was done with impunity due to the support of a base corrupted by the partisanship that Washington feared. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z After weeks of peaceful protests, the civil society has pushed from power an old regime that much of the nation viewed as dysfunctional and corrupt, representing a continuation of old Soviet mentalities. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Like all wars, the First World War corrupted the winners and losers alike, spreading cynicism and lies, limiting free expression and dissent, and distributing pain, sacrifice and suffering unequally. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you … the people.” What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In the spirit of Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” Koons launched a one-man revival of the Rococo, the favored style of France’s corrupt ancien regime, for a new Gilded Age — New York in the 1980s. Perspective | Stunting on the Louvre: Beyoncé, Jay-Z and the art of swagger 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The enemy for disdainful Times readers of long ago was an editor who authorised kitting out a convicted criminal with a bugging mike in order to trap corrupt policemen. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z There is simply nothing better than the original film, with its Trumpian propaganda broadcasts and trashy, corrupt villains. Please, Hollywood, leave Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers alone 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z “I want to pay it like that,” he says, promising revenge upon the corrupt police officer he blames for his father’s death. Rigberto González on Arundhati Roy's 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness': dazzling but imperfect 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z These frugal moves seem radical in a country as corrupt. "Servant of the People" is an example of a politician living up to the promise he plays out on TV 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z That’s something that our society obviously understands and is in thrall to, and yet Gatsby is also a novel that shows the hollowness of this promise, how corrupt and dangerous it is. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Subtitle: A plucky lawyer takes on a corrupt system. Perspective | A cover story: The art of the pointless subtitle 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Whether Salome lives or dies, she has shattered her stepfather’s corrupt and hypocritical regime. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Europe was seen as effete, corrupt, supercilious and haughty. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z Athol Fugard said that modern dramatists were failing to look at world issues such as corrupt African leaders and injustice. Athol Fugard berates dramatists for failing to confront injustice 2010-08-30T14:59:00Z Reviewing the play for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that Mr. Redgrave “plays the corrupt, lusty Boss Whalen with an outsize satanic gusto that is as unnerving as it is entertaining.” Corin Redgrave, Actor and Activist, Dies at 70 2010-04-07T02:27:00Z The pupil in question is an oversized child, played by Laurence Belcher with the assurance of a rising young Conservative at a party conference: hardly the captivating, corrupted innocent of James's story. Feast; In the Beginning Was the End; The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-02-10T00:05:37Z The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, accusing him in a statement of corrupting Afghanistan’s youth. When the music stops: Afghan ‘happy place’ falls silent 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Other Greek residents and tourists defended Sowemimo’s clothing and slammed Greece as being a corrupt country. Travel blogger removed, arrested in Athens for allegedly ‘breaching sexual decency’ with dress 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s all the Trumpian greatest hits: witch hunt, corrupt media, deep state. Perspective | Trump’s Ukraine-scandal strategy — counterpunch, confuse and con — depends on the media 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z "Food, Inc. 2" — the highly anticipated sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary "Food, Inc." — premiered at the Telluride Film Festival Monday, with new insights into the corrupt nature of our food system. “Food, Inc.” sequel premieres at Telluride Film Festival, 15 years after the acclaimed documentary 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Politically, she was a corrupt and failing empire with a government that ruled through paranoid invocation of national security, he felt. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z Punctuated by corrupt elections and lavish religious ceremonies, “Tirador” achieves raw social commentary for the price of emotional distance. | 'Tirador': A Hurricane of Misery 2010-07-22T23:22:00Z I like that you’re overturning the idea that technology is corrupting our humanity — but not completely. Holly Herndon’s right-now sound 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Arendt explained that such movements depended on the unconditional loyalty of the masses of “slumbering majorities,” who felt dissatisfied and abandoned by a system they perceived to be “fraudulent” and corrupt. The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Avenatti describes himself on Twitter as “fighter for good,” but the accusations describe “a corrupt lawyer who instead fights for his own selfish interests.” Avenatti tripped up by Nike extortion claims, other charges 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z He somehow has a way of internalizing the violence, yet it somehow hasn’t corrupted his soul, in the ways that we see Walt being corrupted and Jessie being shattered. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z This makes "Supernatural" a series that's as much about underdogs battling corrupt systems as it is about hunters confronting monsters. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Tonight's episode revolves around the murder of a prison officer, whose corrupt dealings made him a number of enemies. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-06T23:04:00Z One obvious reason is that there are very few outright criminals among the Indian super-rich, very few that are unapologetically corrupt in the Russian way. ‘The Billionaire Raj’ Review: Gatsby on the Ganges 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Rash writes well about the bonds between children and parents and, in particular, the pain that ensues when they are severed or corrupted. Burning Bright by Ron Rash – review 2012-08-04T23:05:30Z As I had a sunrise pull from my liquid gift, I speculated that the woman had really found a change in heart, that maybe she was not as terminally corrupt as I had thought. The moment my marriage was over: 'I had no idea I was living with a drug dealer' 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z From the corrupt coal industry to net neutrality and the border wall, there are numerous examples of how his show matters. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z As their relationship deepens, the lines between right and wrong, friendship and love, and "saving" and corrupting become inextricably blurred. The Carpetbagger: From Sundance, a Competition Slate That Could Be Called Accessible 2012-11-28T21:00:48Z Add a weak, corrupt state and organising crime appears all too easy. No fantasy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z He hated the police for the way they treated black people, Thomas says, and was convinced the racism of police culture would corrupt his son. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z We see families and lives eviscerated, not only by the injustice of the convictions, but by a pathologically corrupt and ineffective penal system that punishes ad infinitum. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In real life, the business was inherently corrupt and so it was going to attract mob figures. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z A predictable tale of innocence corrupted, based on a true story that's probably much more intriguing than this movie. — M.M. May 22 at SIFF: John Jeffcoat's 'Amplified Seattle' rocks the Neptune 2010-05-21T19:15:00Z The recent sequel “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” casts Bruce Greenwood as a corrupt and sinister U.S. president who’s led off in handcuffs — on Fox News, no less. Few politicians are talking about removing the president — but two TV shows are 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Some of Assange's supporters criticized The Guardian for running the story against such a key source, but Davies says that's how journalists become corrupt - by staying away from stories about people they are close to. AP Interview: Hacking reporter says more to come 2011-07-13T21:32:08Z Still, its impressionistic structure has its own rewards, and the play never devolves into a dull history lesson or a preachy tract about the corrupt social forces that exacerbated the famine. Theater Review: ‘DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy,’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-09T22:58:53Z Pramoedya was imprisoned by the corrupt Suharto regime for his left-wing political views. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z She flees her home after a corrupt duke ruins her family’s fortune, essentially shutting down their carnival and demanding that Elizabeth become his slave. Best new science fiction and steampunk Photograph: ITV The television industry is "quite corrupt" in the way it deals with people who take part in reality shows, according to a commissioning executive. TV industry 'quite corrupt' with reality stars, says Channel 4 executive 2011-08-27T13:18:00Z When – decades later — vaudeville, circuses and early motion pictures began to spread, they were denounced for their corrupting influence on the young and working classes. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Placing Shakespeare’s story in a late-20th-century world of drugs, gangs and corrupt civic leaders goes a long way toward solving this problem. Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet the escape of much of Europe from the dead hand of a corrupt and backward-looking Catholic church was surely an essential precursor of the continent’s success over the next 300 years. Religious warring 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Instead, Threadgill is planning what he called a “corrupted oratorio,” featuring two choirs: “a traditional choir and a gospel choir,” plus piano and organ, and other instruments as it develops. Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is. 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z His voluntary admission of tactically placing political donations to earn favor corrupted his insurgent status. Kim Kardashian is the GOP’s only hope: If American democracy is now a reality show, let’s bring in a real star 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Part of the problem is that Ferguson’s policing has been corrupted by a civic culture that values revenue generation over public safety. 'The Ferguson Report' offers a damning indictment 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “But I do think that with success comes certain things that can corrupt you. That’s the oldest story in the book and I think you just have to be careful.” Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Brien, on the other hand, viewed “The Tonight Show” as a sacred institution that needed to be protected from the corrupting influences of network executives bent on maximum ratings. Books of The Times: Funny Guys, Serious Business 2010-12-17T00:00:10Z The king’s brutal implacability, we sense, can only come from years of corrupting obeisance to his whims. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z Although it offers an implicit critique of Turkey’s corrupt justice system, “Endgame” is also comic and charmingly absurd, largely due to the reckless efforts of its characters to get even. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The two become unlikely allies in their shared desire to wrest the kingdom from Mapidéré’s son, who is being controlled by a corrupt regent. The best science fiction and fantasy novels for April 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The physical obstacles to the journey — corrupt officials, trigger-happy soldiers, indiscriminate airstrikes — will prove only half the challenge. A Father’s Corpse Journeys Across War-Torn Syria in This Masterly Novel 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The role of the Globes is to be a bellwether for a film's Oscar prospects, and to be be an entertaining, drunken live awards show that challenges network sensors and ticks off corrupt, clownish politicians. Friendly reminder: The Golden Globes know nothing about good TV 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z As they fall in love, Edward is unwittingly dragged from his uninterested family to her corrupt one, and he watches himself turn from the morals he had held so dear. A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Of course, everything, however pure, can be corrupted by the one-two combination of popularity and cynicism. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z "Computers have corrupted everything," says calligrapher Thomas Ingmire of San Francisco. Calligraphers still aiming to be letter-perfect 2011-08-15T15:55:21Z But he's also a wannabe tyrant who has been corrupted by power to the point of no return. Everyone loves a villain, but in "The Rings of Power," maybe we shouldn’t 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The movie turns ugly, and the development of the McDonald’s empire comes off as the embodiment of a dream turned sour, of a grand vision corrupted by the will to power. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s a harrowing, often heartbreaking tale of precarious boat trips, run-ins with corrupt border guards and parched, hopeless days in the Sonoran desert. Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid it to Rest on the Page. 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Among the newcomers, 5 Seconds of Summer and Charli XCX made the most forceful impressions with catchy pop songs happily corrupted by the noise and belligerence of punk. Sam Smith, Taylor Swift take charge at KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Training Day, in which he played a rookie officer reluctantly partnered with Denzel Washington's corrupt LA cop, earned him an Academy Award nomination in 2002. Hawke: 'Hollywood films don't last' 2012-02-17T08:27:28Z He is acquitted on three of five charges of corrupting a minor. What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z He threatens to put him on an Interpol watch list unless Bernie helps the corrupt detective carry out a heist. Review | The late Philip Kerr’s left behind a colorful new novel. It won’t be his last. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s an account of Los Angeles, a corrupt judicial system and a grotesque miscarriage of justice. Christopher Eccleston: 'I don't watch TV – it's too hard to suspend disbelief' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z In a way, we would have Maryland's corrupt Democratic Party machine to thank for that. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z It may, I suppose, be fanciful to link William Blake's sick rose and Dante's celestial blossom, with the worm as Satan, corrupting the vision of the divine order. Poster poems: Roses 2011-04-08T10:04:54Z “The corrupt politicians in the ninth circle of hell, they are all in there!” An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It wants to make you feel as helpless as its main character, a desperate middle-aged Mexican woman chasing down reluctant doctors and a corrupt insurance company to secure a lifesaving medication for her dying husband. Movie Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Politics of the period were infamously corrupt — although political participation was extremely high, with some national elections attracting a 90-percent turnout. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z As a nation tries to keep hold of what’s real, despite a gaslighting president and his corrupt media helpers, we need more of what’s working: rigorous, careful journalism and radical transparency. Perspective | Reality scores a win over the perverse drive to discredit honest reporting 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z When I did read about people who looked like us, the characters were either evil, slimy and corrupt, or – worse – quaint, good-natured, and mystical. Cormac McCarthy doesn't know the American south-west 2010-04-14T15:19:00Z The variously panicked, evasive, corrupt, craven and honorable characters were players in an ongoing morality play. Lumet, his films embodied grace under fire 2011-04-10T19:29:00Z Cable dramas encouraged voters to root for a chaotic, rule-breaking antihero; melodramas like “Scandal” and “House of Cards” normalized a nihilistic view of all politics as intrinsically corrupt, existentially conspiratorial. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z It is, rather, a carefully built up image of a room corrupted, not destroyed. ‘Filthy Lucre’ and the complicated relationship between artist and buyer 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Once again, there’s common ground for the foes, both doomed to disappointment in a shallow and corrupt system, but this time there’s nothing sentimental about the inevitable guns-blazing showdown. New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Many cite the Chinese ruling party’s corruption as a spur for seeking a freer climate elsewhere and even say that Africa is a lot less corrupt by comparison. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the world,” Mitt Romney said. As ‘the fathers of daughters,’ they were offended by harassment. But what did that really mean? 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Of course, we have seen all these plotlines before: an ambitious housemaid corrupting a vulnerable upstairs male, surreptitious drink-spiking, Thomas compromising himself over Jimmy. Downton Abbey: plot moving slowly? It must be time for someone to die 2012-12-26T12:22:58Z Do these male characters represent corrupting, toxic masculinity? Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z However, youth protests in Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria in 2019 and 2020 all led to the removal of corrupt and authoritarian prime ministers and presidents. Revisiting the Arab Spring, in Letters to the Editor 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z If it is about anything, The Irishman is about the gangsterisation of US politics, how the Cosa Nostra exploited opportunities to corrupt the electoral process and organised labour. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z With his talent and looks, his good breeding and passable manners, Paul could easily sell out and settle into a version of Hal’s cushy, corrupt existence. | 'The Rum Diary': Hunter S. Thompson?s ?Rum Diary,? With Johnny Depp - Review 2011-10-27T22:54:08Z This sweeping history of the decades after the Civil War decries the spoliations White sees everywhere among robber barons and corrupt politicians. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers." "Gattaca" director back with sci-fi fable 2010-04-13T11:24:00Z With Great Expectations, he asks: How long can a society ignore the nefarious, corrupt or compromised sources of its wealth? Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z She takes us into the underground world of art laundering, where stolen objects are washed clean by corrupt dealers with fake provenance papers. ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “To kind of corrupt it slightly, but also to be truthful to aspects of it as much as possible.” You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In July, Mother Jones reported that the Baku deal connects Trump with “one of the world’s most corrupt regimes.” Coming soon to two mostly Muslim countries: Trump hotels 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Nero drags a coffin containing a machine gun around a corrupt post-civil war town on the Mexican border and clashes with the Ku Klux Klan. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z A coven scene featured a plethora of naked witches, their grotesque bodies lending a nightmarish quality to Macbeth's corrupt ambition. Roman Polanski's 'Macbeth' revisited by Criterion Collection 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The Nazis are basically a corrupt criminal gang, making Gunther’s job tricky. ‘Prussian Blue’: Philip Kerr’s crime fiction at its best 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z On Friday, Bolling criticized Obama's recent meeting with Ali Bongo, president of the African nation of Gabon, who is viewed by some as a corrupt leader. Fox Business host: Sorry for racist slams at Obama 2011-06-14T18:17:16Z Eventually, Eiko is trotted out to teahouses where prospective clients gather; these men range from fetishists to rapists to corrupt businessmen who barter women for lucrative contracts. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In this society, you can be corrupt or you can be a zealot. Review: In ‘Public Enemy,’ a Noble Whistle-Blower Turns Fanatic 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Ultimately, it is not at all clear if the Berberian Sound Studio is corrupting him, or revealing to Gilderoy his awful true destiny. Berberian Sound Studio – review 2012-08-30T14:30:01Z The true-crime trend — particularly true-crime stories in which the justice system has seemingly been corrupted or failed — is going strong, and, appropriate to MTV, this has a more overt activist angle than, say, “The Jinx.” What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Brooklyn’ and Olympic Highlights 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z But, before a revival of the show began its summer run in Budapest, an article on June 1 in the pro-government daily newspaper Magyar Idok accused the production of corrupting young people. ‘Billy Elliot’ Musical Branded Gay Propaganda in Hungary; Cancellations Follow 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But what does Williams actually think about it; is it liberating and a good thing, or corrupting and a bad thing? Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z This group was concerned about Last Tango in Paris, which they thought highly corrupting, despite the board's decision to cut a key scene. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z Purists including Stephen Sondheim complained that a musical treasure was being corrupted. Tony Awards show not skimping on razzle-dazzle 2012-06-10T15:16:03Z I've observed, as we all have, exactly how easily manipulated and corrupt the prestige university admissions process can be. That Wall Street Journal op-ed about Dr. Jill Biden isn't just sexist — it's classist, too 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z The Reformation began in 1517 when Martin Luther, a priest and professor of theology, wrote and published his 95 theses, questioning the corrupt ways of the Catholic Church. New in Germany, Vienna, Prague: Reformation anniversary, train station overhauls 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z “Handel lunched with three administrations of corrupt British politicians, royalty, rear admirals, court flacks and power players,” Mr. Sellars adds. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z It’s the same corrupt leaders, the same corrupt godfathers. Femi Kuti, Guarding the Legacy of His Father, Fela 2010-07-11T22:42:00Z The situation was exacerbated by the behavior of the big landlords, many of whom lived in England and left the running of their vast estates to often corrupt stewards. The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z According to the bio for the Gandhi Mahal, Ruhel moved to the U.S. after becoming “disturbed with the corrupt political system of Bangladesh, where he observed the ‘bad guys’ got away with everything.” Minneapolis restaurant praised for emotional response to George Floyd protests: 'Let my building burn' 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The academy loves movies exposing corrupt or problematic practices, unless those movies happen to focus on corrupt or problematic practices in Hollywood. Analysis | The recipe for an Oscars’ best picture nod includes an infusion of Hollywood love 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z He shared with Hidalgo an increasing dislike of incompetent, corrupt Spanish rule, and the two often met, clandestinely, in various Guanajuato communities in the months before the independence uprising. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z Cameroon is rough traveling -- especially in the interior -- and the police, the army, the militias, are so corrupt. Globetrotting photographer Michael Runkel on favorite places, worst experiences and how to travel with kids 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The Kid was swept up in what was known as the "Lincoln County War" after his British mentor was gunned down by a corrupt Sheriff William Brady. 'Billy the Kid' PBS film explores Hispanic link 2011-12-10T01:16:08Z It was an unfinished novel by the author, about two dying millionaires and their corrupting influence on the people around them. Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode two 2011-02-02T22:10:00Z Assimilating to adult reality in the corrupt world of Elsinore is a deadening process. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Next spring, Russell starts work on his new movie, starring Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale, in which a corrupt congressman is convicted following an FBI sting. Capitol Films: home to great-sounding movies you'll probably never see 2012-11-25T20:30:04Z There was little of anything like admiration in his performances; his white guy heaved to life from the belching indent in Archie Bunker’s couch and bleated like the corrupt white cops in blaxploitation satires. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z There is a bit of “Deadwood” and “Gangs of New York” to this depiction of Manhattan, with almost as many corrupt officials, scoundrels and con artists, and far more sickly, exploited immigrants. 'The Knick,' a Cinemax Medical Drama Set in 1900 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z But unbeknown to their fans, the corrupt crusaders would rather pursue their own hedonistic, and often criminal, interests than save the day. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z That movie presented an unproven conspiracy theory that the rap mogul Marion Knight, widely known as Suge, was involved, along with corrupt police officers, in the 1997 shooting death of Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. ‘Last Man Standing’ Review: Revisiting a Murder (and a Murder Doc) 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Would inserting that sentence really corrupt the whole song? ‘Up where they woke’: Fox News and others panic about “Little Mermaid” lyric changes 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The killer, benefiting from a corrupt justice system, received just three years’ imprisonment. The Hazards of American Justice 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Imagine the terror it must provoke in those who are so deeply invested in the corrupt status quo. Perspective | The right-wing sliming of Douglas High students can’t be ignored. It’s too disgusting for that. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Tichy listens as the aliens belittle us and label us misguided and corrupt, our planet a blip on their intergalactic radar. A Century in Stanislaw Lem’s Cosmos 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Soon she is being pursued by the law, the corrupt duke and even the circus that had temporarily housed her. Best new science fiction and steampunk Foley devoted his life to music, but was wary of the way commerce could corrupt it. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The jury “is essentially saying too much free speech is dangerous. There are a lot of people who are disgusted with the way the media is corrupting the public sphere.” Hulk Hogan’s $140.1 million KO in courtroom could have ‘chilling effect’ on media 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z He sees the book and the TV adaptation as containing “many really interesting questions about the relationships between men and women, society’s relationship with power and how power corrupts people.” On and Off ‘Ted Lasso,’ Toheeb Jimoh Has Stepped Out of the Background 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z So a regular guy can be president, and do some good in the midst of corrupt politicians. Top 10 Hollywood presidents we would rather have in the White House right now 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z The narrators in these songs muse about aging, corrupted hopes, last stands. Album review: Bob Mould, 'Silver Age' 2012-08-31T17:46:00Z Tom McCarthy, writer-director of The Station Agent and best known for playing a corrupt reporter in The Wire, worked on the script of Up. Living dolls 2010-06-30T19:00:00Z In this new age, Mapplethorpe’s photography feels strangely innocent, not just in the sense that it isn’t corrupt in the way its critics claimed, but also in a childlike way. Review | Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most controversial artists of the ’80s. Now he looks entirely innocent. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “A Public Reading” is a meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z He was a corrupter of youth who had to be stopped in his tracks. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z This corrupted revolution created the sexual norms we now inherit. Lovelace: a feminism-free 'feminist' critique of the pornography industry 2013-01-26T10:00:07Z We had to rally an army of young people ready and willing to vote out corrupt leaders. ‘We took our anger and channelled it’: Parkland students Jaclyn Corin and Delaney Tarr on becoming activists 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z And as time goes by and countries are governed by increasingly corrupt people ... Alberto Granado obituary 2011-03-07T19:25:12Z That dream, of course, collapsed decades ago, a victim of corrupting political and economic forces, mediocre talents and its own ideological rigidity. Designed to Help Uplift the Poor 2010-02-18T17:25:00Z About another corrupt leader, she observed: “In the heat of directing the abduction he throws his arm forward, like Lenin on the armored car at the Finland Station in 1917.” Books of The Times: Directly Confronting the Appalling 2011-04-04T22:00:07Z This was the constitution, palpably chaotic and corrupt, that some defended as "the perfection of human reason". Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z “You have one magnificent chance to beat this corrupt system and deliver justice for every forgotten man, every forgotten women and every forgotten child in this nation.” The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z His Long Island is scruffy, blue-collar, corrupt, choked by traffic and fueled by fast food, cheap beer and unrelenting anger. Review | ‘What You Break’ review: This Long Island is far, far from the Hamptons 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Equal parts corrupt politician and gangster, Nucky is Atlantic City's treasurer, which puts him in perfect position to capitalize on the opportunity to traffic in illegal, bootlegged booze. Martin Scorsese brings gangland drama to HBO 2010-08-08T19:08:00Z In other words: Team Trump is either the most corrupt in modern history, or all this is just more ideological attacks. Is this Washington’s golden age of grift? Or politics as usual? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Albeit with a less lucid political subtext, SuperFly took the same position of blanket opposition, portraying the few police characters as racist, corrupt and all too eager to crack open a few civilian skulls. From the streets to the screen: how Hollywood is tackling police brutality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z In time, she discovers the terrible crime that corrupted the Wood, and she must find a way to purify it. The best sci-fi and fantasy books for May 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z There are no murder plots, corrupt jurors or searing cross-examinations in “Supreme Ambitions,” a new legal novel. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The more vile, corrupt and gruesome a book’s characters and their actions, the truer the picture of the way we live now. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith Ephesians teaches, "Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds." New "Heaven's Gate" series looks to Christianity to explain the method to the cult's madness 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Le Carré’s ambivalent spies persevered in a slow simmering corrupt reality, always with a sense of gentle futility. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Calling the media “corrupt,” he referred to coverage of his campaign as a “pile on.” The limits of “we go high”: Ignoring Donald Trump’s trolling won’t make it go away 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Despite the fact that our culture has by now completely corrupted and trivialized the concept of “the spirit animal,” I’d like to recommend that America take the coyote as her totem. Coyotes, the Ultimate American Tricksters 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Last August, President Karzai "won" an election so clearly corrupt that his opponent refused to participate in the runoff; in September, he passed a law banning women from leaving home without their husband's permission. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z Other independent films that could make the cut include Dexter Fletcher's romantic musical Sunshine on Leith, featuring the songs of The Proclaimers; and Filth, which stars James McAvoy as a corrupt police officer. Which films are chasing Bafta glory? 2014-01-07T12:37:01Z Ms. Chipaumire ventured into “Heart of Darkness,” Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella about barbarism, moral hypocrisy and the corrupting force of colonialism. Nora Chipaumire’s Dance About Miriam Makeba Comes to BAM 2012-09-11T21:54:24Z The opportunities that arise, to compete for the attention of the publishers and production companies that now want their stories, are corrupting, not ennobling. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But Mr. Jones’s performance emphasizes Caliban’s poisoned depravity rather than hinting at any innate nobility corrupted by his enslavement. Theater Review | 'The Tempest': Air Sprite, Feral Creature, Rapturous Love and Other Sorcery 2010-02-26T03:15:00Z In response, the woman’s mother grew angry and argued that Hillary Clinton was corrupt. Family feud, election edition: Americans brace for Thanksgiving discord 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z He is not the only one concerned with the corrupt financier. What’s on TV Monday: The Finale of ‘The Terror: Infamy’ and Franju’s ‘Judex’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “Oval” ’s least trustworthy figures are prone to such applause lines as “Maybe charity is corrupt, maybe political activism is dead, but that doesn’t mean we have zero responsibility. It’s time to invent something better.” In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The ancien régime is corrupt through and through, and he is the man who will topple it. ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Just as voters hate Congress yet re-elect their Congressmen, so do we think that everyone else’s Christmas is corrupt while our own is full of meaning. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z And the local librarian, who has allegedly corrupted both boys by offering them a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, is arraigned in the front parlour in a gruesome parody of the McCarthy witch-hunt. Personal Enemy 2010-06-29T22:20:00Z Something about the environment of Swan Valley is corrupting his mind. Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Then the trucker gets pulled over and harassed by some corrupt traffic cops, which is less joyous still. Cannes film festival diary: no joy in Godard 2010-05-19T09:22:00Z Earlier this week Issa called the Obama "the most corrupt in government history." Republicans seek to hold AG in contempt 2012-04-27T04:29:00Z It painted the area as a war zone, with corrupt police provoking rather than protecting a community mired in drug violence and left to fend for itself by the Reagan administration. John Singleton: 'The crack epidemic gave me something to write about – but I had to survive it first' 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z So often children are told merely to “be yourself”, but what if that self is corrupted? Stephen Hillenburg: the naive genius who made SpongeBob a cultural titan 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The vast majority of people who loosely affiliate with Salafism, however, are either simply nonpolitical or actively reject politics as morally corrupt. Who are “radical” Muslims? Many point to those from the Salafist tradition, but that’s a gross generalization 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Mostly, they are just vaguely sketched conceits — jaded, corrupt, yammering — who look good in suits, smack around generic villains and make nice with the ladies. Review: ‘War on Everyone’ Is Missing Some Crucial Components 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Nader and Hudson allege that airlines corrupt Congress in other ways, including by offering special benefits such as exclusive dedicated phone lines, complimentary status upgrades, ticket discounts, fee waivers and priority boarding. Perspective | Critics question influence of airline travel perks on Congress 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z What if instead of helping to terrorize campesinos throughout Latin America, the United States spent less on shiny toys for corrupt local armies and more on funding local infrastructure and education programs? What It Took to Get El Chapo Behind Bars for Life 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Carlson, for his part, complained that the “outcome of our presidential election was seized from the hands of voters” and given over to “clearly corrupted city bureaucrats.” Perspective | Fox News is pulling out all the stops to promote Trump’s twisted logic about ‘corrupt’ voting 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z And that’s been a deeply corrupting influence on our culture and our politics. Perspective | Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here’s one radical idea. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Blazing Saddles, as Time noted in its 1974 review, was about “a hip black sheriff who must overcome racial prejudice and the machinations of a corrupt frontier political machine. “It was also very, very funny. Why Gene Wilder Trusted Mel Brooks 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, some law enforcement departments do not take sexual crimes seriously, or the officers are corrupt. Women who travel the world share a universal problem: Sexual harassment 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z “What’s offensive about the industry group arguments,” he said, “that this is bad for artists is that they essentially assume that all labels are dishonest or corrupt.” Sirius?s Move to Bypass Royalty Agency Causes Uproar 2011-11-06T22:52:04Z So much so that he's willing to use his political power to bring it back to life ... which is just what some corrupt politician would do on "The Wire," when you think about it. Does the attorney general have the power to renew "The Wire"? 2011-06-01T17:10:00Z For many, Weill’s score remains the soundtrack of its era, while Brecht’s portrait of a corrupt society captures the spirit of Berlin on the edge of an abyss. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Heard's many roles included the father in the "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" movies and a corrupt detective in the television series "The Sopranos." 'Home Alone' Actor John Heard Died of Cardiac Arrest 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Did you get any sense of the corrupt Nigeria of the film? Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet' 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z During his 1970s heyday, he crafted music that was steeped in a deep knowledge of the brutal past of the Western hemisphere and an equally corrupt present, both in Jamaica and elsewhere. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Climate change exacerbates competition for resources, and thus religious conflict; Christian missionaries are naïve, often willfully; Islamic leadership proves as corrupt as whatever it replaces. Books of The Times: In ?The Tenth Parallel,? by Eliza Griswold, Religions Clash 2010-08-17T23:26:00Z Posada also satirised corrupt politicians and plutocrats as calaveras, or skeletons, a device picked up by Rivera and other painters that remains embedded in Mexican culture. Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:35Z The choices I have are represented by two supremely corrupt parties. John Malkovich: ‘In relationships, I’ve had an addictive personality’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Like the drug trade, the illicit ivory trade involves vast criminal syndicates and countless corrupt government officials, said Trevor Neilson, the president of Global Philanthropy Group in Los Angeles. How the Elephant Became the Newest Celebrity Cause 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z “Some cinema people still think that celluloid is essential if you are not to corrupt the art,” said Mr. Deutchman. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z Maps to the Stars broods on how celebrity corrupts the fallible. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The tale brings to mind Oz's famous statement, in the 1967 essay "Land of Our Forefathers", that "even unavoidable occupation is a corrupting occupation". Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz - review 2011-08-05T09:00:03Z An impossible bureaucracy, corrupt institutions, intractable problems — it’s almost like a David Simon TV show. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z He was, for instance, committed to de-government and to the dismantling of a parliamentary system he regarded as inherently corrupting. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Dogged, troubled Harry Hole — surely the hardest-drinking police detective in Norway — falls spectacularly off the wagon while pursuing both a corrupt cop and a serial killer who leaves behind star-shaped diamonds. 14 best crime novels of 2010: Tana French, John le Carr? and more 2010-12-08T23:57:00Z After a break-in goes awry and leads to a corrupt cop killing his friend, Miller is framed for the murder and sent to prison for a decade. ‘The Locksmith’ Review: A Botched Job 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z His work in “That Championship Season,” first produced at the Public Theater, led the film director George Roy Hill to tap Mr. Durning for the part of a corrupt police lieutenant in “The Sting.” Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89 2012-12-25T09:19:03Z In the original “Boys” comics on which the TV series is based, everyone is equally corrupt and equally punished. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z With Great Expectations, he asks: How long can a society ignore the nefarious, corrupt or compromised sources of its wealth? Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z The world is corrupt, a dark place, and those who get ahead are those who play along. 'Get Carter' and the birth of British noir 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z A lie about being the best friend of a dead classmate earns him popularity and a girlfriend, but the falsehood is ultimately corrupting. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ filmmakers refine a hit Broadway musical 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The libretto sets the opera in a prison near Seville, where Florestan, a Spanish nobleman, has been held as a political prisoner by the corrupt prison governor. Review: Spruce and Taut, the Met Opera’s ‘Fidelio’ Looks Good at 17 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z This is a story about strong women who trusted the wrong men and about powerful men corrupted by greed, lust and hunger. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Still, that doesn’t mean that all of his rhetoric is inherently wrong: The ruling elites are truly incompetent and corrupt, and they deserve to be supplanted. “Game of Thrones” needs a new big bad: With Ramsay out of the way, a villainous void must be filled 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z He sees the crusty bachelor Don Alfonso as a man of the Enlightenment who engages two young couples in a cruel ploy to teach them that feelings of any kind corrupt reason. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Among the things that capture the killer’s attention: a corrupt monk in Manhattan, a mobster on a Caribbean cruise, and a tantalizing rare-stamp sale in Wyoming. Sleuths for our time: smarts, not guns 2013-01-11T00:47:17Z Vic's allies, whom he thought of as his family, were the Strike Team, and had all become corrupt cops to varying degrees. Box Set Club: The Shield 2011-08-23T11:40:27Z But he's so good that he attracts the attention of both some corrupt cops and some greedy mobsters, both of which want Caan to work for them. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Drive" 2011-09-15T12:55:07Z It’s an elegant, economical opening that sets up the show’s battle lines: the cowboy sheriff will fight the city-slick gangster, as well as corrupt officials and greedy businessmen, for Las Vegas’s soul. Television Review: ‘Vegas’ on CBS, Starring Dennis Quaid 2012-09-24T21:48:27Z Perry romped almost as noisily through the gossip pages, marrying scruffy British comic-turned-LA-scenester Russell Brand, corrupting "Sesame Street" with an episode taped with her considerable cleavage on display. Pop culture: Year of the earache 2010-12-29T22:17:00Z The record of our investigation exposed his corrupt behavior. Abramoff criticizes reforms after lobbying scandal 2011-11-07T12:44:10Z Bee aired a clip of Jones speaking last year where he says, "The white majority are fed up of this corrupt and decadent two-party, Jew-party, queer-party system!" Don’t say Sam Bee didn’t warn us: “Nazis understand grassroots organizing better than the D... 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “As long as human beings aspire, they will be capable of corrupting the object of their aspiration,” he told me. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Photograph: Sygma/Corbis A talented female lawyer negotiates a man's world, brings to justice the most corrupt politician in the land, and romances the future president of the United States for good measure. Hillary Clinton, the Movie: will it be a hit for Hollywood? 2012-12-18T15:43:44Z Russia became “a regime in which the billions of dollars at Putin’s cronies’ disposal were to be actively used to undermine and corrupt the institutions and democracies of the West.” Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Shows like “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” have centered on the lives of morally corrupt men, whom we learn to sympathize with and even admire. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z In one strong early poem he refers to himself as a monster, “with a taste for decay./Who feeds by preference on novelty and shock;/on the corrupt and vulgar, the abnormal and sick.” Books of The Times: ?Collected Poems? by Jack Gilbert 2012-03-13T12:00:00Z Jack was corrupt, and I don't think you can say that Eliot Spitzer was corrupt. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z So she pivoted to fiction, placing “Glory” in the mythical nation of Jidada, which is suffering under the yoke of a brutal dictator and the whims of his corrupt party. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The club is generally seen as having a conservative mission, making sure French isn’t polluted by the corrupting encroachment of, say, English. Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z He leaves her at the mercy of a complicated network of corrupt politicians and murderous minions, and “Widows” loses a lot of its power when those guys crowd the actual widows off the screen. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The best of these black-and-white wood engravings explore sinister territory, most notably in "Mephisto Dressed in Faust's Robes," a dusky, spooky rendering of a corrupt and predatory face. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z Your corrupt pharma giant is called Dr. Smile; his wife is named Happy. Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z In the mind of many Egyptians he is associated with Egypt's modern corrupt rulers rather than the great pharaohs of ancient times. Sacking Zahi Hawass is a sign of Egypt's ongoing revolution 2011-07-22T07:00:00Z Even today, with the innocence of our eyes thoroughly corrupted by the camera, it is still possible to be bewitched into seeing things differently through Hokusai’s inventive visual honesty. Review | Even a year’s worth of Hokusai may not be enough to display his genius 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Made soon after President Nasser's death, the film is critical of the old "socialist" bureaucracy, which had become extremely corrupt. The 10 best Arab films 2013-07-06T15:00:00Z It explores the way the internet can corrupt, and be corrupted by those who use it. Devil's Whore sequel on Channel 4 2012-09-24T14:23:11Z One historical angle oddly absent from Murphy’s reconstruction is the Hollywood blacklist, first drawn up in 1947 after growing unrest in the industry about the corrupting influence of creatives with communist sympathies. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z They fight the power in a corrupt, still-brutal state while preparing for a festival in an indigenous village and praising one another’s work. Movie Review: ‘The Return of Lencho,’ Directed by Mario Rosales 2012-11-09T00:34:13Z In much of his best-known work, the temptation to do evil is more readily indulged by men and women whose better instincts have been warped by the need to survive in a corrupt, commerce-driven culture. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z Rich nation football corrupts those who run it, while disappointing hungry fans. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Power has got a corrupting influence and I think it did, and he was under pressure to maintain his audience and ratings at Fox. The dark arts of Fox News’ Roger Ailes: “If Trump didn’t exist, Roger Ailes would have crea... 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z And all of that magic is swiftly and ridiculously corrupted by mortals and their profane antics. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z A decadent emperor wantonly massacres his own people with the aid of a corrupt courtier. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z However, comic book cops — and Gotham cops in particular — tend to be corrupt, murderous and borderline evil. From murderous detectives to evil space police: The worst cops in comics 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Its chief concern is to present its author as a man of high ideals who was slowly and imperceptibly corrupted by his work. Mucky paps 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Owners and management are shown as depraved, vacuous, corrupt and downright evil, scheming to create workers who are ever cheaper, more compliant and more profitable. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z From afar it seems like Baghdad: car bombs, beheadings and corrupt politicians. Film festival shows contrasts of Mexico's drug war 2010-10-18T00:31:00Z The man, Pak Chong-Mar, was in the crowd on Rockefeller Plaza outside the "Today" studio and also was yelling about how the Internal Revenue Service was corrupt and ruined his life, authorities said. Man tries to slit his wrists outside NBC's 'Today' 2013-06-06T21:00:11Z Because his rule is not just cruel and brutal but incompetent and corrupt, the people will be kept in subservience, not just by fear, but by poverty too. A Woman in the Crossfire by Samar Yazbek – review 2012-06-22T21:55:08Z Laughing at how stupid, pompous or corrupt they are doesn’t seem to break the spell of their power. When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “Westworld” has the power to turn the human brain into the ultimate corrupted server. ‘Westworld’ Season 3 Is Here. Wait, What Happened in Season 2? 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The Simpsons frequently tackles real-world problems like nuclear war, corrupt politicians and obnoxious neighbors with such grace and humor that we forget how grave or stubborn the problems are. ?The Simpsons? Marks 25 Years and Endless Inspiration 2012-04-22T23:48:06Z The argument, which Carl pursues with the dogged righteousness of a guy on Twitter asking Serious Questions, demonstrates Ostlund’s refusal to adhere to the corrupt bourgeois notion that brevity is the soul of wit. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z A former Times reporter examines the personalities and process behind New Orleans’s reconstruction, including the often corrupt horse trading that went on in the early days. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z “He was a fighter of social injustice, taking on corrupt politicians and racketeers preying on the common man.” Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “There are crooks and corrupt officials on both sides, but the majority of people are just normal.” Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z But "Barry" is a show about "morally corrupt people making bad decisions," the actor reminds me in our thought-provoking "Salon Talks" episode. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z In a series of flashbacks, we see how each has been corrupted by Mr. Mister’s moneybags. Theater Review: ‘The Cradle Will Rock,’ a ’30s Revival at City Center 2013-07-11T21:52:40Z In therapy, I learn that the trauma of the attack means that my brain’s usual mechanisms for storing memories have been corrupted. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z He takes the freshman clubbing, and shares a forbidden smoke with him, telling him: “Your soul is still pure. But every second in this place will corrupt it.” ‘Cairo Conspiracy’ Review: There Are No Angels 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z “The Deuce” returns us to the familiar, “Wire”-esque territory of the corrupt transaction and its place in human nature. Review | In this era of online porn, ‘The Deuce’ artfully retraces the rise of the sex industry 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Through a long string of amazing coincidences, this book winds up pitting Lacy against the Honorable Claudia McDover, “a Florida gal who just happens to be the most corrupt judge in the history of America.” Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The presence of Vincenzo, for me, seemed to be an organising principle around which all that was absurd and corrupt and heartbreaking about the alley could be appreciated. My life in San Francisco’s restaurant alley 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z I do wonder, with apologies, if a good therapist would help with your anger; you were burned by corrupt people, not a corrupt profession. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It’s a special therapists-behaving-badly edition 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It is also beautifully suited to the corrupt delicacies of late Romantic French mélodie, as demonstrated in Sampson’s recent song recital recording on the BIS label, with the accomplished pianist Joseph Middleton. Recording reviews: A limpid soprano’s chance to soar 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Griffith’s third and equally praiseworthy film, “Eden,” charts a similar course, this time focusing on a Korean-American teenager who falls victim to human trafficking in a corrupt New Mexico town. ‘Eden’: a harrowing tale of sex trafficking 2013-05-02T22:32:25Z Over the past 500 years everything from chess to coffee houses and vernacular Bibles has been seen as possibly corrupting the young, making them frivolous or indolent or filling their minds with nonsense. Will the internet eat your brain? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s his scarlet letter, his Star of David jacket patch: the signal to authorities that he’s been corrupted by idealism, and to audiences that he’s seen the light. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z In that same speech, the president pitted himself against “corrupt, power-hungry globalists,” deploying a term understood by anti-Semites as a code word for Jews. Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Dirty American oil money and corrupt Nazis are in the mix. How to watch the final season of ‘Foyle’s War’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Ness went to Cleveland, arguably even more corrupt than Chicago, where as director of public safety he cleaned up the police force and took on the mob. ‘Eliot Ness:’ biography of an indefatigable crime fighter 2014-04-30T20:00:24Z That corrupts you and takes you away from your impulses and you don’t want to do that as an actor. Willem Dafoe on painting Van Gogh’s shoes: “It’s his attempt to paint the soul of something” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He's doing his best to corrupt Desmond, the orphaned nephew under his care. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z Mr. Gibney’s film reveals significant aspects of the case, many of which were hidden in plain sight and shed light on corrupt practices. Review: ‘No Stone Unturned’ Explores an Attack in Northern Ireland 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But Lynch and Frost depict that fantasy as illusory and bedraggled, opining instead that the Norman Rockwell vision of small-town America hides a corrupt heart. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Even though Ms. Muller’s message is blatantly clear — power corrupts — little about it, despite, or because of, her penchant for such an expressive dance language, rises to a visceral level. Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z Ivan finds his footing only to mix it up with an assortment of predatory preachers, mercenary record producers, corrupt cops and miscellaneous hustlers. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The Colombian justice system and police are hopelessly corrupt –which is why the drug lords need to be extradited to the US if order and authority are to be restored. Narcos and Our Brand is Crisis both sell Latin America short 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z We're so quick, particularly in the age of the internet, to look for intricate, dark and corrupt explanations. Fast food: the reason behind our national incompetence 2012-10-06T23:06:03Z You’ve commented extensively about the corrupting influence of money on nonprofits, the media and politics. ArtsBeat: 'Seven on Seven' Collaborators Discuss the Meeting of the Digital and Art Worlds 2012-04-13T18:51:08Z Mr. Cooke’s justifiably outraged shots at corrupt policing and racial inequities turn into a sustained barrage against the drug war, from its Nixon-era inception as a national policy to its costly maintenance, casualties and hypocrisies. Movie Review: ‘How to Make Money Selling Drugs’ Takes the Law to Task 2013-06-25T22:24:49Z This is the way good people often get corrupted in Pelecanos’s novels, paying their dues for favors received. War Wounds: Crime Novels From All Kinds of Battlefields 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter called the result “a portrait of morally corrupt early-1960s America with an outsider tale of love and friendship molded by a master storyteller.” ‘The Shape of Water’ Takes Top Venice Film Festival Prize 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z That’s largely due to the efforts of historians of the Dunning School, who spent decades creating a narrative of Reconstruction as a tyrannical, corrupt and failed social experiment. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It tells the story of a lone rebel who defends his village against corrupt local authorities. Nabil Maleh, Giant of Syrian Cinema, Dies at 79 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “Everybody knows the system’s rigged, everybody knows the system’s corrupt, but it’s the difference between common knowledge and specific knowledge,” said Lovell. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z “Much of the press . . . is not only fake, it’s corrupt,” he said at the same event. Perspective | Trump, the TV president, finally meets a media story he can’t control 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z As a film, it has been variously interpreted as everything from a depiction of masculinity in crisis to a post-Watergate paranoid parable about corrupt authority figures. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Four years later, with the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, his name is back in the headlines — once again the rallying cry for a process critics say has been corrupted by partisanship and hypocrisy. Merrick Garland was historically snubbed — but he’s emerged more respected than ever 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Rath’s road to ruination begins when he ventures to a nightclub, the Blue Angel, that he believes has been corrupting his students. Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z This is a perfect film for the age of Donald Trump, a revenge fantasy perpetrated against elites, who are caricatured as venal, corrupt and beyond redemption. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Bettauer was denounced as a communist and a corrupter of the city's youth. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The character was supposed to signify the loss of innocence, as teenagers turn into adults and become corrupted. How we made A Nightmare on Elm Street 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the crop is not being grown by benign hippies, but by a pair of very unpleasant characters, one of whom happens to be a corrupt policeman, DI Dickens. Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z He was Mad magazine’s longest-serving contributor and proudly helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans. Lifestyle - The Washington Post Rss Loading... Among them, she and the sound engineer Åke Linton found a corrupted Logic file and a scratched CD, both named “Solo.” A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Many nefarious individuals and groups, such as poachers, corrupt government officials and organized crime syndicates, benefit from these illegal sales. 9 souvenirs you’d be surprised the U.S. government could confiscate 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The staging is disruptive in a way that feels heavy-handed, but the corrupting influence of power is exposed. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Is it still a good thing if peace is brokered by a corrupt politician? ‘Norman’ director Joseph Cedar on his ‘fairy tale’ version of the New York fixer 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z And: “Help me tear down the corrupt and moribund order of privileged people.” Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z His transformation, under Iago’s manipulation, into a monster of sexual insecurity doesn’t carry the dramatic force it does in the original, but we do see clearly noble heart corrupted. Review: ‘Othello’ Goes Hip-Hop. There’s Humor, Too. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z At heart, this remains a story not of mob chic, but of power's corrupting influence and the things that people, even moral people, will do in its name. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z They spurred him to change his previous policy of keeping silent about the way some viewers openly admired the corrupt Vic Mackey. In ‘Coyote,’ Breaking the Cop, Not the Rules 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Fincher honors Larsson’s muckraking legacy by envisioning a Sweden that is corrupt not merely in its ruling institutions but in the depths of its soul. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z In Furst’s second novel, set in the 1960s, a lightly fictionalized Abbie Hoffman roams through the New York City counterculture, preaching freedom from a corrupt social order while spreading damage liberally in his personal life. New in Paperback: ‘On Desperate Ground’ and ‘The Paper Wasp’ 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In a rare public speech to a packed auditorium at Eastern Illinois University, Zagel intentionally avoided references to the disgraced former governor's case but said not all politicians are corrupt. Blagojevich judge urges students to keep the faith in public officials 2012-04-20T11:00:00Z A few years ago, there was a corrupted file on the computer, which meant a switch to manual operation. Space Needle New Year's Eve show an 8-minute blast 2010-12-31T16:01:41Z Rather, she says, it is about how power and politics corrupt religion. Maryam Keshavarz: 'In Iran, anything illegal becomes politically subversive' 2012-08-23T20:00:04Z “And whether you think the death penalty is moral or not,” when it’s used “where the legal system is corrupt, that needs highlighting.” Katie Leung Stars in ‘One Child’ by Guy Hibbert 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The Bluths were selfish, mistrustful, and corrupt, but in their way they were a family. The New Arrested Development Is Dark, Uneven, and Frustrating. Can We Have Another? 2013-05-29T17:59:42Z As injustice begets injustice and a corrupt regime besmirches beauty, Mizoguchi gives his lovers the last laugh, in one of the most jubilantly derisive endings in the history of cinema. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The Nixon Aesthetic was Quaker paranoia, a combination of austerity and arrogance that corrupted the presidency, but he still had respect for the trappings of the office. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z In the article, Dent claimed that the materials on the course's syllabus "present terrorists in a sympathetic light and American political leaders as greedy, war hungry and corrupt." Literature of 9/11 course under fire at University of North Carolina 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Cut off from the rest of the country, threatened by corrupt politicians and ruthless American mercenaries, a harmonious, indigenous community bands together to preserve their identity and protect what’s theirs. From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The whole system is completely broken and in hands of very corrupt people. "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z In keeping with the hunger for national reconciliation, early-20th-century scholars depicted Reconstruction as a time of corrupt “carpetbag rule.” Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Like the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, the military brass thought it their duty to protect the guilty — essentially, protect a corrupt system — and punish the victim. The Invisible War: When Soldiers Rape Soldiers 2012-06-20T15:00:57Z The bitterness seeps into the bones, corrupting personal relationships, motherhood and even innocence. Fen ? review 2011-03-09T19:01:00Z Things have changed since the characters began their journey from a corrupt and dangerous Times Square but they continue to struggle to break free from the past. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Deuce’ and a Monday Night Football Anniversary 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Or, at least, a place and time before pop became corrupt. Hey, what's that sound: children's choirs and kids singing 2010-04-12T10:14:00Z McLean said he feels America is a corrupt country today — and a very "divided" country as well. Don McLean of 'American Pie' fame tells Fox News Digital, 'I did the right thing with my life' 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Her story is better than Diane's – a riveting drama of big egos, corrupted institutions, divided loyalties, conflicted motives, personal anguish, and, yes, real debate about science and saving the planet. Take climate scientists to task, but avoid formulaic boffin-bashing 2011-02-11T18:19:34Z They are all about stories from distant places and often outsiders taking on a corrupt system. Film-maker Asif Kapadia: ‘Maradona is the third part of a trilogy about child geniuses and fame’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z “People say that power corrupts. I don’t think so. I believe that power unmasks,” he added. Ruben Blades: Power doesn’t corrupt, power unmasks 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In the book, these characters are aristocrats, with decades of conniving and debauchery underneath their wigs and powder, who conspire to corrupt a chaste woman. In ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton Play the Game 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But that doesn't stop him from chasing "the green light" of wealth and status, the dangled promise of power that can only create a corrupt plutocracy shored up by vast social inequality. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z To review, Kendall begins the season believing the world would see him as a knight riding in on a horse to take down his corrupt, heartless father. "Succession" presents the "Chiantishire" dog show, starring the well-bred Roys 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z As a desperately protesting Carrie is escorted from the Oval Office, the implication is that power will always corrupt. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Toneri plans to destroy the Earth, which he sees as corrupt and debased. Elaborate 'Last' in Naruto series packs visual punch 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z In Tracker’s world, the richest, most gorgeous colors are shades of brown and black, and nothing is more corrupt, more vile and disgusting than the work of the White Scientists. Review | ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is the fantasy epic everyone will be talking about 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z His 2008 novel “The Whole Truth” is about a corrupt arms dealer who distributes a fake Russian video to spark a new Cold War. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Though it is worth noting that "Leviathan," which targets corrupt institutions from church to state, is so polarizing at home, many in official Russia are refusing to claim it. Oscars 2015: Powerful foreign-language film nominees incite with insight 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Gerrard emphasized that she, and the choir’s other new collaborators, took pains not to corrupt the women’s essential sound. An ’80s rock star, a beat boxer and a Bulgarian folk choir walk into a studio 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z His speech about her purity and his fear of corrupting her is touching. Colin Farrell's best, most quietly smoldering roles, from "Banshees of Inisherin" to "Phone Booth" 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Civic institutions were hopelessly weak and corrupt, with the partial exception of the police. A Summer Without Superheroes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Reagan was a corrupt and racist villain, not a sweet grandpa. The Reagan era and "Us": Sins of the '80s still haunt America in Jordan Peele's horror tale 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Nair is actually less interested in such corrupt fantasies of power than in the adrenaline rush he gets from being in Africa with Michael. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z A deeply corrupt New York State government and judiciary allowed Wall Street in the late 1860s to be a free-for-all, capitalism red in tooth and claw. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z What counts is how Mr. Cera’s face, much like that of a silent-screen actor, conveys sincerity and a sense of wonder, in part because, like those performers, he doesn’t seem corrupted by the camera’s attention. 2010-01-08T03:18:00Z “It feels more and more like the States – angry, corrupt, terrible treatment of minorities. Why on earth would I want to expose my children to that unnecessarily?” 'A spoilt brat country': the Australians overseas who decided not to come home 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Sometimes the killers are random scumbags; other times Castle is a cop and the shooters are his corrupt colleagues. “Daredevil” makes the case against war: Underneath his gun-happy surface, the Punisher is a powerful symbol of the horrors of combat 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z They will say that the wounded former believer was prone to anxiety or depression or obsession in the first place—that his Christianity somehow got corrupted by his predisposition to psychological problems. The sad, twisted truth about conservative Christianity’s effect on the mind 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z “It seems we’re going to corrupt another generation,” Ms. Foray told The New York Times. June Foray, Prolific Voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Dies at 99 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The film is “a savage denunciation of the way entertainment imperatives have corrupted the news media,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Deadpool’ and ‘Amanda Knox’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z These groups would eventually lobby against Jewish control in the media, fight for government censorship to diminish that control, and even call for boycotts of Hollywood films, arguing that they were corrupting the nation’s soul. Unlike His Peers, a Studio Chief Saved Jews From the Nazis 2014-04-11T12:00:02Z We wanted to explore the idea, and particularly with Season 2, that power corrupts. After a dystopian "mandemic," the wacky "Creamerie" pokes at the remaining "inequities among women" 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Arranged in a series of specific imaginary scenarios, Wang Shuo’s wordy screenplay grows increasingly serious, taking satirical digs at China’s aging population and corrupt officials, and the dearth of artistry in its mass-market movies. Movie Review: ‘Personal Tailor,’ Directed by Feng Xiaogang 2013-12-19T23:24:56Z According to the Rastafarian belief system that animates some forms of reggae, Babylon refers to the corrupted, capitalist, colonial world that righteous believers are always trying to escape. What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z In the work he depicts corrupt clergymen and bureaucrats burning in hell. ArtsBeat: Museum Director in Ukraine Paints Over a Mural She Doesn’t Like 2013-08-01T16:51:45Z They may or may not be a little corrupt. Taryn Manning: "I don't want to keep playing characters that pass away" 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z While we participated in a corrupt system, we didn't cause the corruption. Motherlode Blog: An Adoptive Parent Won't Take the Blame 2012-12-10T17:36:50Z “Baal,” Brecht’s first play, is the work of a young playwright, a sprawling yet static portrait of a dissolute poet who corrupts everything in his path. Theater Review: Brecht’s ‘Baal,’ Hoi Polloi, at Jack in Brooklyn 2012-07-22T22:04:47Z I think we’re seeing the end result of representing very, very corrupt people is that corruption seems to spread out and infect you, but also people try to use you against that. 'Good Wife' creators talk about going behind bars for Season 6 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z All he was doing was issuing corrective after corrective to a world vilely corrupted by liberalism. How Roger Ailes Degraded the Tone of Public Life in America 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Though the film deals in stock subjects like Mexican drug dealers and corrupt American border police, Mr. García Bernal said he was never concerned that it was mocking his native country or culture. Will Ferrell Tackles Spanish for ?Casa de Mi Madre? 2012-03-02T19:44:52Z Leon Isaac Kennedy plays a man imprisoned for being in the wrong place at the wrong time who is given a chance to earn parole in a prison boxing tournament sanctioned by a corrupt lieutenant. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “The left throws their hands up and says the system is corrupt, and ends up not participating.” Hollywood rewrites its script to resist Trump in midterms 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z His journey with "Furious" began in 2000, shortly after he'd finished filming "The Skulls," a thriller about a corrupt college fraternity that maybe 10 of you saw, with Universal Pictures. How Paul Walker nearly didn't end up in many of the 'Furious' films 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z News organizations typically prohibit reporters and columnists from taking anything of value from those they write about, lest it corrupt or compromise what they write and report. Thomas Friedman’s columns prompt a different kind of ethical question for the New York Times 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z He has the outraged, childlike astonishment of someone surprised by hard grief for the first time in his life — and a concomitant disgust for the corrupt adult world that has shaped his existence. Review: In ‘Hamlet,’ Ruth Negga Rules as a Player Prince 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z "You have corrupted discourse for the whole world by going along with these lies." “Littered with inaccuracies” and “so dull”: The reviews of Sean Spicer’s new book are n... 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Their story needs to be heard. If we don’t care about those human conditions, then we are really corrupt.” Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Like Modesty, she's also a relative orphan, abandoned and abused by a corrupt state. Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives 2010-12-08T12:34:00Z Here, as elsewhere, the local representatives of Putin's United Russia party are corrupt. Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah – review 2013-06-27T11:00:02Z Mr. Russell, who converted to Catholicism in the 1950s, saw the film as an attack on the corrupt union of church and state. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z The most vivid scene, though, doesn’t belong to Mr. Caine but to another character actor, Sean Harris, who recently burned through the “Red Riding” trilogy playing a corrupt cop. | 'Harry Brown': Michael Caine as Gangster-Shooting Vigilante 2010-04-29T23:04:00Z The premise of the five films that comprise the Dirty Harry series was that stupid or corrupt bureaucrats were making it impossible for honest, hard-working policemen to do their jobs. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z If you had talent, the worst thing you could do for your soul was allow some corporate entity to claim and corrupt it in exchange for filthy lucre. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z This is largely because of “the lack of visa requirements, corrupt government officials and lack of border enforcement,” said Tutko. New in town: Nepalis join the Latin trek to America 2012-07-31T18:38:00Z Jimmy McNulty of “The Wire” “swears off the twin compulsions of booze and police work; he goes back to both, while the rest of ‘The Wire’s’ most zealous reformers find themselves corrupted.” Books of The Times: Brett Martin’s ‘Difficult Men’ Sees a New Golden Age for TV 2013-06-24T21:26:42Z ‘Clockwork Condition’ provides a context for Burgess’s most famous work, and amplifies his views on crime, punishment, and the possible corrupting effects of visual culture.” Unpublished "Clockwork Orange" sequel discovered — here are the first details 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Maruti Evans’s whitewashed set and fluorescent-dominated lighting are better at suggesting a corrupt world laid bare on a coroner’s table than the shadows of eternal night. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z On both sides of the border, prejudice is sometimes trumped by the corrupting power of money, which makes a mockery of the idea of justice. ‘Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z "He has created the world he wants to create in this madness, but as we know, power is a great corrupter." David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z But remember, these are antiquated representations, born a half-century ago, of the corrupt values of a fraying postwar British establishment. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z When a country is built on a world-altering interpretation of liberty but corrupted from the outset by its dependence on slavery, the ironies don’t just “abound.” Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z “The Turn of the Screw,” Britten’s 1954 adaptation of the Henry James novella concerning restless ghosts and corrupted innocents, is smaller, subtler and less widely exposed. Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ by Opera Moderne, at Symphony Space 2012-05-28T22:04:32Z Or, if we are strong, we are also greedy, base, corrupt and dishonest. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z “He longs for such simple concerns. But the riots, the politics, they have corrupted a system that was once reliably corrupt. A construction license can no longer be bought.” In His New Book, a War Novelist Turns to More Intimate Battles 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The Palau Legacy Project created the pledge to address a growing concern over tourists’ careless behaviors, such as littering, corrupting coral and disturbing protected species. Want to visit this tiny Pacific island nation? First, sign the pledge. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Turbulent, violent, laced with corrupting digressions, it was also a time when most Americans felt the future could be bent to their wills. What the Tumultuous Year 1968 Can Teach Us About Today 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Not to mention the comically corrupt Nixon-channelling President Logan, the saint-like black Democrat President Palmer and the multiple Big Oil interests behind terrorist attacks. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z “It is because in the aftermath of Katrina, America was told a fairy tale about a monster storm, a city below the sea and corrupt local officials,” she wrote back. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z How do we enjoy the work of bad, unpleasant, corrupt people and institutions? The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Fans of “The Wire” also know Mr. Whitlock as Clay Davis, the genial and corrupt Maryland politician known for his ability to stretch a common four-letter-word into an endlessly adaptable, three-beat musical phrase. The New Season Film: In Praise of Character Actors 2011-09-14T12:00:05Z The implication, which also marks Fuller’s movies, is that there is no purity, that everything is corrupt or corruptible, a point-of-view reinforced by the novel’s denouement. On his birthday: Samuel Fuller, novelist? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z In Brexity times, there is something particularly bleak about watching endless power plays among a handful of more or less corrupt entities. What happened when our TV critic watched 67 hours of Game of Thrones? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z The crises that riddle the quartet’s first three volumes — including Brexit, climate change and corrupt politicians — seem almost mundane, compared with the catastrophe rumbling through “Summer.” Review | Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ concludes her seasonal quartet on a high note 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z But the trappings — Weimar-era garb, corrupt show folk addressing the audience, the backdrop of grand historical evil — will be familiar to theatergoers who’ve seen Kander and Ebb’s “Cabaret” on stage or screen. | 'Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now': ?Hypnotik? at Theater for the New City - Review 2012-01-01T22:18:00Z Frank Luntz, a Republican consultant, advised Republicans to use words like “liberal”, “sick”, “corrupt” and “traitors” together, to tarnish the Democrats. Liberal blues 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But ignoring core-value objections is a great way to flush valuable life minutes down the toilet of someone inherently corrupt. Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend comes through after girlfriend drops hints 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z They quickly set to work modernizing the park’s communication center and facilities; weeding out corrupt staff; training and better equipping the rangers; and building stronger relationships with local communities around the park. In Chad, the Elephants (So Many Elephants) Are Back 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Often when he speaks, he seems to be simultaneously translating his words in his head, calculating how they might be corrupted in print. David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk 2012-11-10T14:39:45Z In the 2001 film “Training Day,” Denzel Washington played a corrupt narcotics detective with a knack for busting drug gangs and a weakness for skimming the take. ‘Training Day’ and ‘A.P.B.,’ Where the Rogue Cop Rules 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The index, which is based on perceived levels of public sector corruption for which scores are given by business people and country experts, rates countries from zero to 100 percent, zero being the most corrupt. Officials hiding ill-gotten gains undermine corruption fight-watchdog 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Instead, he fears African countries are so corrupt they will deliberately destroy their own economies to ensure they get more climate change money. The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier 2010-05-07T23:12:00Z Embroiled in the machinations of her godfather — a minister unseen during the opera, who plots to topple a corrupt regime in the Han court of China about A.D. Music Review: ‘Feng Yi Ting’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-27T21:15:25Z The picture is far from perfect, and there are powerful forces within a weak and corrupt government that still wish to turn back the clock. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z What many of these potential adopters don’t realize is that the adoption industry is already, arguably, corrupt — and not all of the kids who get “rescued” actually need it. How the Christian right perverts adoption 2013-05-04T21:00:00Z Ron Perlman is back as Pernell Harris, a corrupt judge who, after a breakdown, believes that God is sending him on a vigilante mission, in the second — and final — season of this psychological drama. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Love’ and ‘The Vampire Diaries’ 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Dumping the national currency would also protect people from harmful manipulation of the currency’s value by corrupt or incompetent public officials. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Naive young men or women would meet someone worldlier and be tested, corrupted, defiled, defeated. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z Goodman's character is in a corrupt, morally compromised, vicious, violent criminal organization. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Interestingly, all it took was two homes to corrupt the numbers. Radio ratings mess! DreamWorks Animation gets 'Felix the Cat.' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s a campfire singalong, a signifier of tactile humanity for a singer who knows how technology both redeems and corrupts. On Khalid’s ‘American Teen,’ Songs of Young Love and Technology 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In this case, it is the story of a minor revolution in a small Russian village and a man who refuses to bow to a corrupt political system. Golden Globes 2015: Sweet wins for audacious filmaking 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z She condemned the employers, the capitalist machine, the corrupt two-party system. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Goddess of Anarchy’ 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Either way, Trump’s actions have set the country on a course that will corrupt U.S. democracy, while his ties with Duterte serve as a caution regarding how much further he might want to go. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z But the nationalists who peddle these anti-immigration platitudes now are the ideological descendants of 19th century Americans who feared that hiring an Irish Catholic nanny would corrupt their Protestant children. On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z “This is a fitting sentence for a defendant who harmed investors, corrupted the integrity of the art market, and damaged the historical-cultural record,” Acting U.S. California man who sold $1M of forged art gets 3-year term 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Putin critics say the story mirrors life in Russia in the 15 years since the former KGB spy first rose to power, with corrupt state officials enriching themselves and enjoying impunity. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z A corrupt politician’s self-serving development plan is called the New Harlem Renaissance. Review: ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage,’ a Hero for Harlem 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It is cherry-picked and jury-rigged, co-opted and corrupted, and yet it remains inextricable from American identity — which is precisely why it repeatedly finds its way into our fiction. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z As the movie proceeds, we grudgingly admit to ourselves that Doyle's methods, racist and corrupt as they often are, seem to get results. The French Connection: No 14 2010-10-17T10:42:00Z But he is proud that he and the writers had been able to capture something about both the allure and the corrupting influence of extreme wealth. Damian Lewis Discusses the Future of ‘Billions’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z He must be corrupt, but not too corrupt. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 9: Dollar Dollar Bill, Y’All 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z She writes about so many scavenging kids, boisterously quarrelsome families and corrupt officials that the book is too crowded. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z America has had corrupt and biased referees enforcing two different sets of rules, using a manipulated scoreboard, since its founding. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z “The cliché is that our leaders are corrupt,” Mr. Cole said. Teju Cole’s ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ Comes to the U.S. 2014-03-19T21:01:25Z A time when ballplayers brawled with fans, and tobacco companies used baseball cards to entice the young, and a small group of corrupt baseball heroes from Chicago could throw the World Series, and ... Metropolitan Museum Opens Huge Show of Baseball Cards 2013-07-11T21:15:02Z Mr. Hastings lumps them, with most top media people, as “egotistical, vainglorious, pompous, insecure, corrupt.” ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Nixon called Mr. Cuomo “corrupt” and hammered him over his handling of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which she said he used “like an A.T.M.” Governor Cuomo Says Cynthia Nixon Saved a Teahouse. Huh? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The shows share an understanding of the corrupting powers of wealth and a conviction that there is no greater achievement than standing onstage and singing a song. Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The idea that a character’s charm could give him free rein was a lesson Kay drew from another character: Leonardo DiCaprio’s corrupt stockbroker in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The Musée d’Orsay and Stanley Kubrick: What ‘Lupin’ Is Made Of 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Her struggle is an enraging depiction of the plight of an individual fighting a corrupt, greedy system. Review: Health Care Bureaucracy Runs Amok in ‘A Monster With a Thousand Heads’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Subtitle: A plucky lawyer takes on a corrupt system. Perspective | A cover story: The art of the pointless subtitle 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z This prominent New York journalist blanketed the nation with fairy tales of corrupt, incompetent, lazy Black Republican politicians. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z There are some unfortunate proponents of the law of individual responsibility, who corrupt the essentially optimistic nature of existentialism. Just too soft to be Sartre | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z In plain vérité style, the documentary exposes how language and school are corrupted to become bludgeons for the system built by settlers. ‘In My Blood It Runs’ Review: ‘I Want to Be an Aborigine’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Someone finally went through Trump staffer Katrina Pierson’s tweets and found where she said “this corrupt country has a head Negro in charge.” Larry Wilmore is horrified by Katrina Pierson and Trump’s indestructible following 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z “I feel like social media has corrupted our generation a bit. We are meant to be this generation of new hope but it’s all so warped.” This is 18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “It would be considered highly inappropriate and corrupt back home.” Perspective | The Cuomo brothers put on quite a show. Should the journalism-ethics police shut it down? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z They’ve already bought into a corrupt system, acceding to the teacher’s demands, and signing the petition is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Review: ‘The Teacher,’ a Classroom Satire on Political Corruption 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Supporters of the decision were grateful for a cultural moment that forced people to consider the inherently corrupting nature of awards. Perspective | The real Turner art prize is the aesthetic riddle we pondered along the way 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The bad guys may be loathsome, they may be corrupt, they may be terrifying, but they are also somehow more evolved. This Charmless Man: The Anti-Antihero of The Jinx 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Populists are united in suspicion of traditional institutions, on the grounds that they have been either corrupted by the elites or left behind by technological change. A perfectly timed book on populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In his second year, for example, he appeared in “Golden Boy” not as Joe but as Fuseli, an older gangster figure who corrupts him. Seth Numrich of ‘Golden Boy’ Polishes His Boxing Moves 2013-01-14T22:11:05Z Spurlock has already established that this movie is about the machinations that corrupt artists and their art. Morgan Spurlock sells out 2011-04-20T23:01:00Z Is Annalise a smart woman making defendable choices, or is she morally corrupt? TV Picks: 'Transparent,' 'How To Get Away With Murder,' 'Gotham' 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z From a corrupt power broker who exists to sow dissent, it's downright frightening. "The Good Fight" bosses on that inevitable violent finale, optimism and delivering us to "Evil" 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z It begins in a tight close-up on its characters, but it expands its sights dramatically to show us a world so corrupt and discriminatory that the best options are often choosing between bad and worse. Critic?s Notebook: Reconsidering ?Lobby Hero? by Kenneth Lonergan 2011-11-06T22:45:44Z That 60-year-old exposure to corrupting US comics is still paying dividends. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Something like “A Silent Fury,” its title a testament to the endurance of people “determined to remember” and with their memory resist racist brutality that protects corrupt governments and corporate property instead of human life. Review | No one stood trial for the El Bordo mine fire. Yuri Herrera’s ‘A Silent Fury’ tries to right a century-old wrong. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In the weeks and months leading up to his death, Wheeler wanted to investigate the officials and agencies of Delaware, a state he considered corrupt after watching construction begin on the Battery Park house. He helped build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How did he end up dead in a landfill? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Every reader is different, and some people might well like to fall into flamboyant thrillers with high body counts, corrupt officials and preposterous plot twists. John Grisham Brings Back His Hero Jake Brigance for a Third Case 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z He worries about practical issues, such as what happens if GMO crops are grown next door and spread into his field, corrupting foods he aims to sell as natural or organic? Little San Juan County takes on the GMO goliaths 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The film is neither a story of immigrants finding a glorious land of freedom or of being corrupted by cutthroat American life, but a combination of both. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z Utterly corrupt, he is also, in his way, a classic American success story. Eugene O’Neill, Brought to Life in Bright Colors 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z He suggests that “with time, Americans would start thinking of the South as another Mexico, only with an even more corrupt government.” Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z The watchdog said that providing others with refreshments and entertainment at an election event is “a corrupt conduct and a serious offence” and is against the elections ordinance. Corruption charges dropped for Hong Kong singer, activist 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z "Expendables 2" is the sequel to the 2010 box office hit about a team of mercenaries hired to kill a corrupt military man. Stuntman killed on set of "The Expendables 2" 2011-10-28T17:11:53Z The material -- about a semi-successful private eye who had a way with women and a stronger moral code than the wealthy and corrupt denizens of Los Angeles -- was too delicious for Hollywood to resist. Raymond Chandler to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z He expressed concern that reading it could corrupt even the morals of U.S. senators, which is possibly the funniest thing anyone has ever said in Washington. Perspective | ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re — yawn — bored by obscenity. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In “Network,” an ahead-of-its-time cautionary tale about the corrupting power of television, Ford can be briefly seen on a TV in the control room before the screen flickers over to the eccentric newsman Howard Beale. If You Think the Oscars Have Gotten More Political, Here’s Why You’re Right 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Related: How to catch up with … UnREAL But for all her moralising about the awful, cynical things Quinn asks her to do, Rachel is just as corrupt as her boss. 'Walter White in power heels': UnREAL is evil, twisted, unmissable TV 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s always been difficult to be an honest, moral person in a corrupt world, and as “Glory,” a new movie from Bulgaria, demonstrates, it’s also increasingly ridiculous. Review: The ‘Glory’ of a Good Deed (and Its Fallout) 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In many ways, Day for Night is similar to Godard's Contempt, and Truffaut does admit the suspicion that cinema and especially Hollywood is contemptible: mendacious, infantilised and corrupt. Day for Night ? review 2011-02-17T22:24:00Z Here is the millennial complex in full bloom, the craziest, most poisonous expression of anti-government paranoia fueled by a corrupted brand of Christianity. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson One possible reason is that the star, , is hard to accept in the lead role of Enoch Thompson, known as Nucky, Atlantic City’s dashingly corrupt treasurer. | 'Boardwalk Empire': The Jersey Devil Is in the Details 2010-09-16T19:59:00Z That effort began in 1951, when William F. Buckley Jr. warned in "God and Man at Yale" that godless socialist professors were corrupting the splendid, Christian young gentlemen in their classes. The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade and its myths that won't die 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z But Kevin Ring believes that the reality is more boring: Historically, things are less corrupt than they’ve ever been, thanks to existing ethics laws and regulations. Is this Washington’s golden age of grift? Or politics as usual? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Even a desire to affirm human dignity and elevate the human spirit can be corrupted by dishonesty in the form of sentimentality. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z A: I was planning on writing a different book, one that explored the flip sides of a life saved by rock-and-roll and one corrupted by it. Jim DeRogatis has been covering R. Kelly’s alleged abuse for nearly two decades. He’s not done yet. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z With his peroxided locks, heavy mascara and volatile sensitivity, his Jackson is a cross between punky rockers Billy Idol and Billie Joe Armstrong, with a dash of corrupt, rabble-rousing politico Huey Long thrown in. At ArtsWest: Andrew Jackson as hard-rocker-in-chief 2012-09-21T17:05:04Z Raise your hand if you remember the 2011 uprisings in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen to protest corrupt leaders, poverty, lack of jobs and systems that brutalize citizens, leaving them feeling unheard. Bothered by Baltimore’s riots? Where have you been — for decades? 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z In a cast of characters who are corrupt and wicked in various shades of gray, this humble upholsterer is here to remind viewers what uncompromising goodness actually looks like. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 9 Recap: Bye Bye Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z With notable exceptions, like the characters in “The Wire,” those who enforce the law are typically noble or corrupt, glamorous detectives or dirty dealers. | 'Newyorkland': ?Newyorkland? at Coil Festival Shows Police Work - Review 2012-01-17T22:42:59Z Socrates is condemned to death — for “corrupting the youth of Athens” — by drinking poison. Style Invitational: Songs without end (or beginning) 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Alleging the process is corrupt, his campaign vowed to attempt another appeal and file a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She was your typical D.C. 30-something. Now she might become Peru’s first lady. 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In the end the back story involving gangsters, corrupt police officers, a wealthy businessman’s murder and incriminating video adds up, sort of. | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z And thus does the demonization of fashion play on; its role as shorthand for all that is morally corrupt and venal in the world continues. In ‘Cruella,’ Fashion Is Toxic 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z In some ways this is the stuff Chicago crime stories are typically made of: the mob, corrupt politicians, greed. Five Great Podcasts From 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z One of the group’s elaborate schemes involves a seemingly blind driver; anyone with a few extra bucks can get a license in this corrupt system. 'Ungli,' Written and Directed by Rensil D'Silva 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z As a cop in a corrupt system, Zen possesses "an unfortunate reputation for honesty". TV review: Zen: Vendetta 2011-01-03T07:59:00Z So this whole town was corrupted on a massive level because of this relationship between the FBI and Bulger. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Groening's Springfield is polluted and sad, run by corrupt officials and beset by the simpleminded populace that keeps voting for them. 'Simpsons' creator: Real Springfield is in Oregon 2012-04-11T12:03:11Z To do so, “we must destroy this corrupt society to remake ourselves as the Framers intended,” he says — and by “destroy,” he isn’t speaking figuratively. Review | White supremacists are the eerily relevant villains in Karin Slaughter’s new novel 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z He gave voice to a broad range of characters, including corrupt politicians, starry-eyed young lovers, a quarreling Adam and Eve, and, in “Fiddler on the Roof,” struggling Jews in early-20th-century Russia. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Jeremy Renner, who plays a corrupt New Jersey politician in the film, was already nostalgic about the experience, save for the fact that it took nearly three hours every day to perfect his pompadour. Scene City: Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams Attend the Premiere of ‘American Hustle’ 2013-12-11T21:14:53Z Conservative media have suggested that Mary Jo, viewed as a victim of corrupt men, is a prototype for the #MeToo movement. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Event details Pink finally shows himself – his uneven, dirty-blonde bowl cut and PVC top suggesting a corrupted Milky Bar kid – but that's as revealing as he gets. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – review 2012-11-09T16:51:59Z A boy raised on myth, who realized its power to disorient and corrupt, is not about to play fast and loose in the realm of memory. Books of The Times: A Newsman?s Family, Missing in Action 2011-03-24T21:19:26Z “That’s why an overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans support term limits — because the corrupt swamp they see in Washington is a direct result of political careerism.” This Senate is the oldest in American history. Should we do anything about it? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “I guess I think the system is pretty corrupt.” John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Athletes across the board — the Israeli baseball team, an Irish gymnast, American rugby players — have posted videos of themselves and teammates attempting to corrupt the cardboard beds in the Olympic Village. The Olympics Are All Fun, No Games on TikTok 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Some others see this a strength: Sentiment doesn’t corrupt her sense of taste. Guarding the Sanctity of Italian Food, One Meal at a Time 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Willie Stark has gotten really good at beating corrupt politicians at their own game. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z What if the Grail were not a holy Christian relic but something entirely different, alien, with its own compelling and corrupting power? Review | ‘By Force Alone’ is an exciting and wickedly funny reimagining of the King Arthur legend 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Namely: Don’t give a horribly corrupt, desperately poor country gobs of money with little oversight. ‘It’s John against the world right now’ A power elite that operates without fear of those over whom power is exercised is one that will be limitlessly corrupt and abusive. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z There’s a lot of talk about gold, and how it corrupts men’s souls. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z In 1984, at the age of thirty-three, he led what he called a “democratic and popular” revolution against Burkina Faso’s old corrupt order. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z It tells the story of Lila Mae Watson, a dogged black elevator inspector whose ascendant career is sabotaged by her corrupt white rivals. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “It was really like a tsunami of media and politicians saying really unimaginable things about how we corrupt children,” Redai said. Hungarian LGBT activist among Time’s 100 most influential 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z A young Milos alchemist, Julia, is determined to use the Sacred Star's awesome but corrupting power to restore her people to their former glory. 'Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos': anime film for fans 2012-01-19T20:44:06Z “Saving America’s Horses” details the horrors and the corrupt and negligent practices surrounding the slaughter of over 100,000 horses a year. Movie Review: Katia Louise’s ‘Saving America’s Horses’ 2012-12-07T02:38:56Z She and other women in the market must contend with young toughs eager to rob them and corrupt police who demand bribes. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Today, that independence is being corrupted as the wall separating art museums from business activities is crumbling. Museums' disturbing transformation: relentless commercialization 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z When he’s battling a corrupt private military firm, the terse, forceful prose with which Child describes him serves to confirm Reacher’s toughness and credibility. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z There’s a corrupt police chief, inside jokes and jabs at the Seattle mindset, and people who will do anything for money. ‘Seattle Vice’ returns us to the saucy, swinging ’60s 2014-04-10T20:45:54Z And Colin Farrell will star as detective Ray Velcoro, “whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.” Twitter hates the second season cast of “True Detective” 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z He broke out in 2002 on FX’s “The Shield,” about an elite police team that was brutal and corrupt but highly effective in busting street gangs. Review: ‘Six’ Follows Rough-Edged Navy SEALs in a War on Terror 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z While "Greenleaf" examines how righteous or corrupt these church leaders might be, Winfrey and the other panelists say the show remains respectful of church traditions. Winfrey explores megachurch drama in OWN drama 'Greenleaf' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The corrupt politician is the putative villain of his book, the idealistic wayfarer his heroine. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Dickens’s Circumlocution Office, a government department that exists to do nothing, inhabits the same fictional reality as all the indolent, corrupt, authoritarian governors and tyrants in García Márquez’s work. Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z He’s tasked with reforming, and modernizing, the city’s epically corrupt police force as Cleveland’s new safety director. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Naomie Harris plays a police officer pinned between corrupt colleagues and a community weary of her in this action movie from Deon Taylor. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s the most striking example yet of how our apple-pie memories of this place have been corrupted that this beacon of purity has grown into an embittered shrew. Twin Peaks recap: episode 12 – well somebody took their time! 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Frum’s prescriptions for responding to Trump amount to cut-rate self-help: “Resistance begins by refusing to let him corrupt you personally.” Will Democracy Survive President Trump? Two New Books Aren’t So Sure 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z If a designer label is going to book 10 or 15 pages of advertising it follows that the magazine will be featuring their products heavily, so it's a fairly corrupted environment. Is creative fashion photography a thing of the past? 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z But by the mid-1990s, writes Ewalt, “no one was blaming D&D for corrupting children — they were worried about violent video games like Doom.” ‘Of Dice and Men’: the lure of Dungeons & Dragons 2013-08-22T21:09:02Z His on-stage demise initiates riots and demos, bringing the corrupt society close to a cleansing, or cataclysmic, upheaval. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z Over the years, those lofty ideals were corrupted, according to a history of the hospital prepared for the Garden Club of Virginia. In the Shenandoah Valley, Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But the country remains engulfed by a bloody war against narcotics trafficking that has consumed politicians, corrupted law enforcement and led to tens of thousands of deaths. Mexico promises help returning fugitives 2012-01-31T06:00:00Z During the French Revolution, for example, “elites” were the corrupt and immoral court, weakened by the influence of a dangerous woman. How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z A heavyweight drama on the corrupting influence of power, The Ides of March follows Gosling's character as he orchestrates Clooney's governor's bid for the presidency. On-screen presidents: Can George Clooney match Martin Sheen? 2011-07-28T15:18:28Z He clings to what’s left of his deceased parents’ defunct dairy farm on the outskirts of a rapidly expanding — and always corrupt — Los Angeles. Review | In one of summer’s best new shows, Perry Mason gets what he’s always lacked — a personality 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z On a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn, dockworkers chant against their corrupt union boss. 7 Decades Later, Arthur Miller’s ‘The Hook’ Comes Home to Brooklyn 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Drawing on American imagery in bold, playful ways, it presents the “Ring” as a story about the amassing of power and its corrupting effect, the despoiling of nature and the oppression of have-nots. Music Review: A ?Ring? Made of California Gold 2011-06-16T22:15:29Z It was established five years ago after a long period of a chaotic and corrupt funding system. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz: 'In Poland, everybody is an expert on everything' 2011-04-05T13:58:55Z Is The Master the tale of an innocent drifter who finds himself bamboozled by a corrupt pater familias? The Master trailer: will Paul Thomas Anderson's film inspire devotion? 2012-07-20T14:10:48Z Where Kristofferson sees the big, corrupt showbiz picture and gets furious, Cooper is just trying to stay intact in his own skin. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z When Val tells Lady, “I lived in corruption but I’m not corrupted,” Alexander is much better at suggesting the second part of that sentence than the first. Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps This ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z That was a subject of “Radio Golf,” in which he distinguished between “Negroes,” whom he saw as emulating corrupt white capitalists, and “n-words,” to whom he ascribed a greater integrity and authenticity and defiant style. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z And when he’s not trying to settle old scores against Hillary Clinton, he’s bashing news organizations with his favorite expression: “the corrupt media.” Perspective | ‘Chilling,’ cried Fox News when one of its reporters was targeted in a leak case. Where’s the outrage now? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Anything that’s identified with the West — churches, obviously the United States, nightclubs and the like — become viewed as corrupt and viewed as targets of attack. The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? 2013-01-05T23:00:00Z “It is part and parcel of that wasteland, reeking of the same racism that corrupts other areas of our society.” ‘High Flying Bird’ Is Rich With Historical References. Here’s a Closer Look. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The group is gallant in appearance but deeply corrupt in practice, and led by Homelander, a brutal, omnipotent crime fighter named who wears a cape modeled after the American flag. ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Soon, though, Lamb is sidling up to Tommie and your internal klaxons are sounding, as, for instance, when he says that he’s not “corrupting” her. Review: Visiting a Lolita-Land of Sorts With ‘Lamb’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z In their memo, prosecutors said Murray "acted as an employee and as a drug dealer and completely corrupted the trust necessary in a proper doctor-patient relationship." Prosecutors seek 4-year sentence for Jackson doc 2011-11-24T01:32:08Z “Our politics were really corrupt at a level we don’t appreciate,” he said. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The episode flashed back to Mike’s days as a Philadelphia policeman, when he persuaded his son, also a cop, to take a bribe rather than blow the whistle on corrupt officers. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z One side was a despotic empire that suppressed the most basic human needs and desires; the other was a collection of democracies that, however corrupt and imperfect, sought to enhance human freedom. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The pigs’ initial rallying cry, “Four legs good, two legs bad,” is later corrupted into “Four legs good, two legs better.” REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "He used humor to inspire followers, and he realized that absurdity was a way to undermine institutions that he thought were corrupt." Sacha Baron Cohen trolls Rudy Giuliani yet again, culminating a year of cinematic resistance 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Written by John J. Caswell Jr., the play explores “American anxieties and the cunning ways systemically upheld forces penetrate and corrupt our own singular and collective identities,” he said in an interview. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Or would it just prove a massive sinkhole for public funds, making a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats rich? Huevos de austeridad 2012-06-26T14:27:00Z He made a great show, when in Paris, of not wanting to be polluted by the corrupt mores of Second Empire Paris. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z There are two terrific scenes as Alex returns home and finds his former droogs have become corrupt policemen and there is a cuckoo in the nest of his family. A Clockwork Orange – review 2012-11-22T17:44:03Z That’s how J. Cole begins “High for Hours,” a loose, thoughtful rumination on how power corrupts released just a month after his last album. The Playlist: Arcade Fire and Gorillaz Return, With Money and Power on Their Minds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z There among the giant paintings of conquistadors, corrupt priests and politicians are Mayan farmers growing corn like Macedonia Garcia. A masterclass in Mexican food culture from the country's leading chef 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z At the same time, Perlstein lets us see that this is all part of a continuum, in which a corrupt and virulent culture does not wish to see itself as corrupt and virulent. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z There is no way that can be controlled or corrupted.” Readers Respond: Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Hopper took a large cast and crew to a village in Peru to film the tale of a Peruvian tribe corrupted by a movie company. Dennis Hopper, creator of hit 'Easy Rider,' dies 2010-05-29T18:16:00Z And yet, for Manchette, this is only the beginning, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Thompson is just one participant in a drama in which everyone is corrupt. Jean-Patrick Manchette's 'neo-polar' noir 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The play remains an archetypal romp in which young love triumphs and corrupt old age gets its comeuppance. Educating Agnes ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:03Z Welcome to the bizarre and hidden world of African diplomacy, where gin and tonics flow and diamond hustlers and corrupt politicians run free. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z “At the heart of it,” Professor Dancyger said, “is family and honor and trying to protect the family from a corrupt world, which is what Don Corleone is trying to do.” The Lore of ‘The Godfather’ Resurfaces at Roger Stone’s Trial 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In unison, this crowd chanted along, intoning an a cappella tale of science-fiction monsters and corrupted youth. ‘Rocky Horror’ at Lincoln Center, With Headphones 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Buscemi is a corrupt Atlantic City official and Kelly Macdonald is the young Irish widow who comes to him for help. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z The machine corrupts the writer, unless you write with a pencil you haven’t chosen the words, and so on. ArtsBeat: Who Word Processed First? Professor's History Has Writers Staking Their Claim 2012-01-10T13:00:55Z “The morals of Stuyvesant are being corrupted!” one student wrote in an editorial for Stuyvesant’s official student paper, the Spectator. How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z "So Long" includes the lines: "religion so corrupt and running lives" and "churches they don't have a soul." Lisa Marie Presley returns with rootsy third album 2012-05-23T11:45:18Z “Body and Soul,” the first film to feature Paul Robeson, centers on a corrupt preacher who swindles a small town while his twin brother struggles to survive with honest work. William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z We need to build power that can outweigh the power of these extremely corrupt organizations and corporations that are throwing our future into peril. Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on not losing hope on climate change: "I'm still here fighting" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Too much power may corrupt, but then some hero with even more power will nobly save the day. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The film is a pioneering exploration of the corrupting influence of television in the wrong hands, and Griffith is riveting as a ruthless TV guru. A few ways to enjoy and celebrate Andy Griffith 2012-07-03T20:17:11Z “American comics had an air of the horrible, the corrupt, the deadly evil about them so you didn’t often see them in this country,” says the novelist, now 69. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z So while Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are obviously corrupt in their own way, we must also acknowledge the larger flawed systems that encourage people to work around the rules whenever possible. Beyond Operation Varsity Blues: Our education system is broken—and exploitable—from the bottom up 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In another drama, Marshale mocked corrupt religious leaders who raise funds from Somalis to build mosques only to later steal the money. Somali comic received death threats before murder 2012-08-02T16:24:40Z "Singham" told the story of a right-minded police officer who stands up to a corrupt politician and was accompanied by romance, drama and high-octane action. Bollywood rediscovered heroes in 2011 2011-12-26T02:02:35Z From a different author, this domestic muckraking would be disillusioning and satiric, a searing exposure of a happy family’s corrupt origins. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Prosecutors said the men's relationship was corrupted by greed. Jackson's doctor to learn punishment for death 2011-11-29T13:33:10Z But the image that captured political vanity at its most pathetically corrupting was when Byers's fake interviewer expressed her excitement at his connections. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Although Jerusalem is “dirty and corrupt,” he says, it is “very alive.” Review: In ‘Last Days in the Desert,’ Ewan McGregor Is a Conflicted Jesus 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Tuesday's headlines include the stunning tale of a Univision executive's attempt to corrupt Nielsen ratings. Univison in radio ratings controversy. Bergdahl projects in works. 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z On a reservation in 1970s Canada, a 15-year-old weed dealer comes into conflict with the corrupt local Indian agent. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He doesn’t fill in Gun-soo and the rest with psychological insight and anguished speeches; rather, with pointed asides — about failing businesses, corrupt cops and Korea — Mr. Kim paints a world. Review: In ‘A Hard Day,’ Looney Tunes Meets Cops, Corpses and Crime 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z That’s why defeating Trump in two years — he deserves to be impeached, from the moment he woke up he deserves to be impeached, he’s an unjust, crooked, completely unapologetically corrupt person. What everyone gets wrong about Hunter S. Thompson 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Maoist bureaucracy was corrupt and self-serving, party activists were bourgeois and anti-socialist, and the communist revolution under threat. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z As slippery, unlikable and thoroughly corrupt as any screen president, Logan nevertheless possessed an oily charisma that could propel him far in this contest. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh? 2011-10-27T02:55:09Z In Ms. Bailey’s operatically gruesome vision, enhanced by elaborate digital imagery suggesting a lurid video game set in ancient Rome, depraved humanity gets the flawed, venal and corrupt leaders it deserves. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z Operating within a corrupt corporation, within a corrupt sector, Caputo does the best he can. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Angry Caputo 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z As I researched that story, it struck me that it wasn’t just about Kapoor but about the ease with which the medical system can be corrupted. Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Rights groups have labeled his administration one the world’s most corrupt. Supercars of Obiang son on the block at Swiss auction 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z So when he’s arrested by corrupt police on a trumped-up drug charge and thrown into prison, of course he’s too pigheaded to call his parents and obtain the bribes necessary for his release. Movie Review: ‘186 Dollars to Freedom,’ Directed by Camilo Vila 2012-09-21T17:18:11Z Our country has not been in as much danger since Nixon lurked around OUR White House and his corrupt administration tried to destroy OUR United States of America. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Jackson and his supporters cried foul, calling the deal a “corrupt bargain.” To win a presidential election, getting the most votes isn’t always enough 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Despite his mother’s admonitions about the corrupting influence of life in the States, he discovers alcohol, fast food and American women. ‘The Golden Son’ review: An immigrant’s dilemma 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z After the Newtown massacre, Wayne Pierre, vice-president of the National Rifle Association, attacked the entertainment industry, calling it "a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people." Obama calls for research on media in gun violence 2013-01-16T20:25:08Z Even as embodied by performers as skilled as Ms. Taylor and Mr. O’Keefe, they emerge as brainwashed products of a corrupt society. Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh Directs ‘The Library,’ at the Public 2014-04-16T02:00:01Z It’s so vulnerable and it’s so exhausting because the campaign finance system in electoral politics is so corrupt that, in order to stay afloat as a candidate, you are constantly raising money. Booksmart director Olivia Wilde: ‘Being young is the most painful, most hilarious experience’ 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Both episodes build to shocking acts of emotional and physical brutality, meant to remind fans that these characters — while damnably likable — have been corrupted by a life in which inconvenient people are considered easily disposable. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In our time, which is to say in Addario’s, unwavering faith in the justice of one side has perished, a casualty of too many brutal, pointless, reciprocally corrupt wars. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The profession, especially in New York City, remains deeply corrupt, filled by Trump like folks who care not a wit for each other. Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Originally titled Water and Power, Chinatown was intended by scriptwriter Robert Towne to be the first of a trilogy examining the corrupting effects of Los Angeles's natural resources on the development of the city. Guardian critics name Chinatown best film ever 2010-10-22T15:16:00Z We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z He does paintings for churches at the same time that he draws notebook cartoons of a corrupt and greedy clergy. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It couldn't happen to two nicer, less corrupt states. Web exclusive! All the celeb lists we couldn't fit in the mag 2010-12-17T12:18:20Z Twenty years later, in “The Boys,” Ennis took the template of “Watchmen”—corrupt world, questionable heroes—and pushed it to an extreme, including offensive language, graphic imagery, and characters that indulged in every imaginable vice. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Even Shakespeare’s deep-dyed villains are most compelling when their humanity — their corrupted nobility — glimmers through the sulfurous smoke of their dirty deeds. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z Historians talk about a resentment of authority resulting from centuries of foreign overlords and corrupt leaders. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z They weaponized ethics rules and criminalized standard elements of the legislative process to bludgeon Democrats as a corrupt majority. The Divided Mind and Politics of John Boehner 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Our recent impeachment hearings and Trump's brazenly corrupt acquittal in the Senate showed the world that our system of laws can only be as strong as our willingness to enforce them. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The producers acknowledge these strange days and the crimes born from corrupt leadership in other ways, too. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “Mourner” was written as a series of monologues, in which the title character exposes, by self-flagellating degrees, his own craven passivity and complicity in a corrupt world. Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z What happens if verbal communication is so corrupted it becomes ephemeral, useless? ‘Albert Joseph ’ visualizes a society of mind control 2014-05-08T22:09:23Z Until 1959, the publisher of a book that contained any "purple passage" that might have a "tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" was liable to imprisonment. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z A sweeping tale of gangsters, illegal booze and corrupt cops that unfolds from the streets of 1926 Boston to the grand avenues and squalid back alleys of Cuba. 8 great paperbacks to tote this summer 2013-05-10T20:24:08Z Her shame over her corrupted spirit spills over into advice for Taylor, who’s struggling to maintain integrity and a sense of self in Axe Capital’s dicey corporate culture. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 8: New Money, Old Rules 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z They take explicit violence and self-mutilation as their texts; the guilt of the putative villain infects and corrupts the putative hero. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z The structure echoes that of Camus' 1956 novel "The Fall," in which a defense attorney confesses to his own corrupted fall from grace. 'The Meursault Investigation' re-imagines Camus' 'Stranger' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z While collecting billions of corrupt dollars they are ever on the watch for “counterrevolutionary acts.” ‘The People’s Republic of Amnesia’ and ‘Age of Ambition’ 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z It is also a corrupt and hypocritical ideology which exists only to further the interests of politicians and ignores the advice of doctors and experts; you know, people who know what they are talking about. Convicted drug dealers are political prisoners: I should know — I was one 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z First, though, he has to match wits and blows with a shady consortium of Hong Kong martial arts schools and the corrupt British government representatives cracking the state whip. | 'Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster': This Martial Artist?s Fists Never Leave His Body 2011-01-27T22:47:34Z Somehow, Trump fits neatly into the original vision of founders who feared corrupt and centralized power. The Many Varieties of Donald Trump 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Along the way, it offers an astonishingly vivid look at a broken, corrupt society where millions dream of getting “filthy rich.” Staff picks: ‘How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia,’ food trucks, ‘American Idol’ 2013-04-24T22:18:57Z By the final act of the film, the vigilantes “start to become the evil that they are fighting against, in concert with a corrupt government,” says Heineman. Director Matthew Heineman: ‘Suddenly I was alone with my camera in the middle of this shootout’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Later in his career, he would turn down roles — like that of the conniving and corrupt Willie Stark in “All the King’s Men” — that violated his belief system. ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend,’ Explains a Star’s Power 2014-03-24T21:54:48Z They explain how their film differs from the 1946 David Lean classic and why Pip's journey to the big city is still the most memorable example of good corrupted by greed.• Great Expectations: Jeremy Irvine and Mike Newell on filming Dickens - video 2012-11-29T12:14:55Z Mr. Hopper took a large cast and crew to a village in Peru to film the tale of a Peruvian tribe corrupted by a movie company. Dennis Hopper of 'Easy Rider' dead at 74 2010-05-29T18:20:00Z At their best, revenge thrillers deliver the catharsis of the wronged hero triumphing over society’s ills — corrupt political systems, terrorist groups and human traffickers. ‘Sweet Girl’ Review: Violence as an Insurance Policy 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z A major theme of this show is an ancient one: the way power corrupts and destroys those who covet it, generating plenty of collateral damage along the way. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Dragon Dance 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “Now, Crow claims there’s nothing corrupt about this, saying, ‘My intention is to one day create a public museum at the Thomas home.’ Late Night Skewers Clarence Thomas for Not Disclosing Gifts 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Simon grows desperate as his legal actions repeatedly fail, allowing Fonzic’s ongoing presence to corrupt his loved ones. ‘The Man in the Basement’ Review: The Occupation of Paris 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z It's a corrupt city in a corrupt province, where somehow the light rings loudly anyhow. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z Weak economies and cultures were readily corrupted by traffickers in contraband and refugees. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane on Running Away to Sea 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Because, in a year when the combination of “great” and “America” sounded incompatible and corrupt to me, it was a walk with a different history, and a history I feel I want to live. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z White Fox, played with brisk, exemplary swagger by Hsu Feng, is a master thief employed by a corrupt landowner who wants to purloin a priceless sutra from a Buddhist monastery. ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z A smarter film might take this opportunity to dissect its corrupt leading man. ‘The Exorcism of God’ Review: Devilishly Demeaning 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z No one in the movie is apprehended by the law, and the only cops visible are corrupt ones. Biutiful ? review 2011-01-27T15:00:01Z This global focus — the belief that corrupt systems are more dangerous and influential than wicked or heroic individuals — is a theme of Simon’s work, from “The Wire” to “Show Me a Hero.” When Democracy Dies in Daylight 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z When Laszlo finally penetrates the corrupt reality behind the Golden State’s fact-based facade, what he and the reader discover is a scenario distressingly familiar from dozens of other science fiction books and films. Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It doesn't happen overnight, you don't lose your soul or you don't become corrupt. "Wolf of Wall Street" says his story offers lesson 2011-10-04T06:03:15Z The Carthaginians were governed by corrupt elites prone to ill-advised overseas ventures, for example, but also overseen by strange gods with a penchant for the blood of human children. A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010-07-06T13:13:00Z It’s important that the new show is set on a ship, not on an Earth with corrupt politicians plotting complex false-flag maneuvers as in Star Trek Into Darkness. Star Trek to boldly go where it has gone before: television 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z "Commands" will carry you deeper into the ongoing saga of Ringil Eskiath and his companions, as they refuse the corrupt trappings of nobility. 3 new titles in speculative fiction 2011-11-17T00:25:06Z It was an ugly, tumultuous age of French history, with economic growth and vast inequality, colonial expansion, a cholera epidemic and, more than anything else, a corrupt government dominated by ruthless self-dealers and profiteers. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The League of Shadows had an al-Qaida-ish lust to destroy what they saw as an incorrigibly corrupt Gotham, while The Dark Knight's Joker embodied chaos, which Freeman calls "a quality I associate with the right". Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z The piece has moderate historical value as an example of British farce in its flaccid state before Joe Orton came along to corrupt it. Dry Rot – review 2012-07-30T17:15:00Z I'm afraid to let myself ever feel too successful, out of fear of letting it corrupt me. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z But what he and his colleagues realized is that Jesse added necessary ingredients to the “Breaking Bad” formula, a contrast to Walt and an element of integrity to two otherwise utterly corrupt characters. Aaron Paul of ?Breaking Bad?: Character and Career Both Live 2010-03-20T04:38:00Z After she and her husband are arrested by the corrupt local police, their four children must scramble to buy back their freedom. Filipino Filmmakers Shed Light on the Forgotten. They Hope It Can Last. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Procedural at its start, this story of trapped, corrupted, once-clean Detective Denny Malone is a killer by the time it’s over. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z This gleaming weapon, sowing mayhem as it moves from hand to hand, is a potent symbol of both corrupting greed and the brutality it can engender. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z Penn State fans need to move beyond blind idolatry, and recognize that Joe Paterno was the head of a morally corrupt outfit. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z By corrupting the smiley face in genuinely horrifying fashion, Shin critiques the over-simplification of our emotional lives. What lies beneath the grinning visage in 'Smiley Suicide' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, this is Italy, where politics is at a such a level of the sclerotic and corrupt that to join would be to lose your audience. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z People are surprised when I say that Congress is less corrupt now than it’s ever been. Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Taken to its logical extreme, the cancer cell's capacity consistently to imitate, corrupt and pervert normal physiology raises the ominous question of what "normality" is. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z Morris falls short of challenging Bannon on every corrupt detail of his recent career, especially when it comes to Trump’s inane defense of the Charlottesville riots. “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Like the novels that preceded it, this exhaustively detailed narrative tells the story of corrupt men carving out a place for themselves in a corrupt and damaged world. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor It was a young man corrupted by the world, and I loved it. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z A notebook from the early 1980s, when his practice established an unusually morality-driven constitution, reads "wealth like power corrupts and provokes greed + envy = no real community can be formed". Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z While less explicitly politically than "Leviathan" -- about a man whose house is confiscated by a corrupt official -- critics were quick to identify underlying themes that might not please President Vladimir Putin. 'Loveless', a film about people that politicians will hate, screens at Cannes 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z While working on “Anyone Can Whistle,” she complained to Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the songs, that she didn’t really understand and thus feel comfortable playing the corrupt mayoress: There was “no there there.” Angela Lansbury, Broadway’s Beloved Everywoman 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Interestingly, Harris believes that Pryce’s problems began last season, when he allowed himself to be corrupted by Don. Post Script: Mad Men's Jared Harris on Lane Pryce's Final Act 2012-06-05T10:45:43Z Embracing activism, he agitated for reform of the country’s corrupt politics with its dynasties, vote-buying and postcolonial tribalism. ‘Softie’ Review: Battling for Votes in Kenya 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But money has corrupted this display; it looks like a serious museum room but feels, when you know about the auction and the dollar-eyed publicity, like an expensive jeweller's. Was Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust really worth ?66m? 2011-03-28T13:14:12Z Are the con man and businessman symbols of corrupt Chinese officials who have secretly pocketed the fruits of the country's capitalist-style economic reforms? Chinese director coy on political satire's message 2011-01-11T14:49:09Z Fallada shows very clearly how terror, used as a matter of routine, rapidly corrupts individuals, neighbourhoods, cities and a whole nation. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z And, from his first entry, Omid Djalili, playing a corrupt Whitehall official, delivers every line as if it were the climax of the play. What the Butler Saw ? review 2012-05-17T11:01:56Z Trump last attended the dinner in 2016, when he drew jeers for attacking Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as “corrupt” and accusing her of “pretending not to hate Catholics.” Trump and Biden get evites as Al Smith Dinner goes virtual 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z “The war is central, of course, but so are the ethics of writing and the worry that literary fame corrupts an author’s commitment to truth,” Mr. Curnutt wrote. A Hemingway War Story Sees Print for the First Time 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Whether true or not, the narrative that's emerged is of a locked-away Holmes breaking free from the servitude of a strange, corrupting marriage. In Cruise divorce, tabloids siding with Holmes 2012-07-09T15:56:29Z Punk has a long history of aspiring to disrupt corrupt and authoritarian governments, corporations, and other structures of international power. Punk rock made me a lefty 2012-08-24T15:13:00Z Why expend great effort to revive institutions that were overly adversarial and often corrupt? If Liberalism Is in Crisis, Who’s to Blame? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z A Chaotic Neutral character was not so much morally corrupt as absent of allegiance. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z Just as Trump has corrupted political honesty and Fox News has corrupted news media honesty, so films like D’Souza’s and Bannon’s threaten to muddy the waters of documentary with outright propaganda. 'How to stop an out-of-control president': the Trump films that may swing the midterms 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Can she change the course of history and prevent him from growing up to be a corrupt man? The 5 Best Books for Your Kids This Summer (According to Other Kids) 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z There are also the "Twilight Zone" episodes that don't deal with specific social issues but rather more abstract questions of how power can corrupt individuals. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Won’t affect me: whichever corrupt oligarch, be it Chinese or Russian, who now owns it has no impact on my life. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Entire sections of the city were closed off due to madness, organized crime ran rampant, and the majority of important city officials were wildly corrupt. Fan Theory Suggests the Joker Was the Real Hero in The Dark Knight 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z How pathetic for him to go on the programme he says inspired him and use it as a platform to corrupt the young. Damien Hirst is a national disgrace 2012-08-30T12:17:16Z The result, he warns, is the collapse of the church-state wall between advertising and editorial, a new class of corrupt bloggers and an increasingly ignorant public. 'Culture Crash' examines the crisis in the creative industry 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The house gained prominence when Martin Scorsese used it as the setting for a debauched party hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio’s corrupt broker in the 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Myron Goldfinger, 90, Architect of Monumental Modernist Homes, Dies 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z And in the process became more and more — corrupt is too big of a word — seasoned by cynicism and cunning. Robert and Michelle King on ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “If power corrupts,” he wrote, “the reverse is also true: persecution corrupts the victim, though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.” The Silencing of Writers in Turkey 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z What promises to make the series distinctive is its simultaneously jaunty and corrosive depiction of the music industry — bloated, spectacularly corrupt and stuck in the soft-rock doldrums before the emergence of punk and hip-hop. Review: ‘Vinyl’ Resurrects the ’70s Music Industry, Amid Proto-Punk Squalor 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Season 2 supplants that relationship with a broader portrait of a corrupted city, as seen through the eyes of four characters who in some cases barely interact. The Second Season of ‘True Detective’ Wasn’t as Bad as You Think. Here’s Why. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z “Unpresidented” details corrupt business practices, shady campaign tactics, and gross governing errors without explicitly condemning them. A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Conversely, Kimberley Nixon's Josie, introduced as a goody-goody ingenue, has become progressively corrupted – resulting in a serious misconduct charge from the university and potential arrest for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Has Fresh Meat's exemplary second series surpassed its first? 2012-11-20T13:20:50Z Or to put it another way: power corrupts. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z According to the company, corrupted music files from non-Apple services were seen as a potential gateway for hackers to access users' data and systems. Lawsuit claims Apple deleted rival services' songs from users' iPods 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z This was “a man corrupted by the system,” Hammer said. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “It’s our goal to keep corrupting the youth of America into the pleasure of reading and questioning authority,” she says. Perspective | What we’re losing when we say goodbye to alt weeklies, the rebels of journalism 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Within the show, "The Chicago Code" tells the story of a police superintendent trying to bring down a corrupt alderman and clean up the city's culture. 'Code' on the ropes 2011-03-02T01:11:00Z Sometimes, after all, the corrupt, venal heathens simply need to be banished. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Creators Mark Siano and Opal Peachey beckon audiences back to the 1960s, when “Seattle’s corrupt city hall had an ‘anything goes’ attitude.” The Week Ahead: Daffodil Parade, Sven Birkerts, and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 2014-03-26T21:27:36Z “They’ve seen me move away from something corrupt and change it into something better,” she says. The political playbook for 2018: Get angry, then get elected 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z She is credulous and vulnerable and dependent on a protective paternal figure and lives in constant peril of being exploited or corrupted by some lurking cad or villain. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z What unifies many of the characters in the film – the Americans, the dissidents and even members of the Republican Guard – is that they’re ordinary people at the mercy of the powerful and corrupt. Three Kings at 20: the war movie where anything was possible 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z A print book reviewer might be boring, but it’s hard for her to get very far if she is dishonest or corrupt. Rotten Tomatoes, but for books: Old-school book critics get boost from new Book Marks site 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z All those national tensions come into play when Thatcher finds himself accused of corrupting students with Darwin’s theory of evolution. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z First, the monster preys on the guilty, but soon Hadi and his monster get mixed up with corrupt government officials, ambitious journalists and an old woman pining for her lost son. Review | The best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Oliver: People talk about the idea of the system and the police department being problematic and corrupt and a justice system that can convict nine people for the murder of one officer. "40 Years a Prisoner" confronts the police we're supposed to trust "telling bold-faced lies" 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z It is a morality play corrupting to both white and Papuan players cast into these absurd but very funny roles. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z Trump is repeating the playbook he used during his 2016 campaign, when he tried to paint his then-Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as corrupt and trustworthy, mixing legitimate criticism of her past with unfounded conspiracy theories. Trump plugs son’s book while accusing Bidens of self-dealing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “It’s about how money corrupts,” said Udo Kittelmann, a curator from Berlin who helped organize the pavilion, “and the hope for the future of women.” A Contemplative Venice Biennale, With Less Financial Frenzy 2013-06-02T20:17:59Z “They think money corrupts in politics, and they’re looking to stop that … ‘corruption,’” Kelly says. Jon Stewart smacks down Megyn Kelly for hypocrisy over GOP corruption 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z It incorporates tales of women being turned into violins, violins being turned into women, and the Cremonese masters giving angelic names to their creations to prevent the Devil from corrupting them. The Gypsy Bible - review 2010-10-17T21:15:00Z As you also might expect, it's perhaps a shade too self-important and prone to grandstanding – a would-be state-of-the-globalised-nation, full of corrupt bosses and embattled immigrant labour. Cannes film festival diary: Certified Copies and Biutiful discoveries 2010-05-18T14:09:00Z For once, I could see how Shylock and Portia were both products of a single corrupt society. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z Mistry bends his ear to the city's slang and salty Parsi humour to capture the lives of people encircled by a corrupting political darkness. India must move beyond book-burning 2010-10-21T14:10:00Z The Sound of Things Falling, which won Spain's Alfaguara prize last year, focuses on the bewilderment and fear of a society corrupted and taken over by stealth. The Sound of Things falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – review 2012-11-16T08:00:07Z Sign you’re a corrupt plutocrat: You make policy decisions involving corporations in which you have financial ties. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z He is also less sentimental about the past, "cheerfully corrupt" dockers, deep social and racial division in the Britain of his youth, over-mighty unions and inner city riots. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z One of the most notorious characteristics of the prison recounted in the book was that inmates were expected to buy their cells from corrupt agents. Ejiofor set for drug dealing role 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z In fact, a small cadre of corrupt officers wants Nick eliminated. Review: ‘Bright’ Has Fairies, Orcs, Elves and L.A. Cops, but Little Magic 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Is that basic business savvy or corrupt capitalism? Is Victoria’s Secret targeting teens? 2013-03-27T00:00:00Z It's a movie that installs the 65-year-old actor as the bloated, corrupted symbol of a bloated, corrupted body politic; a film that uses nakedness not to excite but to disturb. Naked in New York: Gérard Depardieu strips for the big screen 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Guston is represented here by his most explicit expression of contempt for corrupt power: a blistering caricature of President Richard M. Nixon. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z And I knew that I would never do a thing like that, that my view of this tribe would not be corrupted or manipulated. The Carpetbagger: A Mexican Director, a Maori Tale 2013-12-06T13:30:46Z It results in fatalism, nihilism and a general belief that everyone is corrupt, biased, and/or self-serving. Don’t worry, be cynical: Why the fear of a nation of critical skeptics is overblown 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z I suppose we're supposed to appreciate the similarities between Hollywood's corrupt system and that of organized crime. As "Godfather" origin stories go, "The Offer" is so bad it's criminal 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “It’s unfamiliar characters who are, on the surface, so unlikable, yet you are completely sucked into their world and you empathize with them,” says Aronofsky of the morally corrupt individuals in “El Club.” Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Captivating mob bosses, corrupt but effective cops, devious but philosophical Old-West crime lords. Breaking Good: How Fargo Changed Cable's Antihero Game 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Various corrupt goings on, larded with hypocrisy, proceed from there. 'Mandrake' a puzzling departure for Red Orchid Theatre 2011-04-18T22:15:03Z Edgerton has the less showy role as a corrupt FBI agent, but he’s arguably the lead of the thriller, and holds the entire enterprise together with deft assuredness. Academy awards 2016 race comes into focus at Telluride 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The series is about Jimmy Pritchard, a morally corrupt retired cop, who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead. Fox orders drama 'The Frankenstein Code' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Eccleston plays a corrupt alcoholic councillor who has a blackout during which he might or might not have beaten to death a corrupt contractor. Rewind TV: 7/7: One Day in London; Blackout; When I Get Older; Imagine: Graceland – review 2012-07-07T23:05:40Z Crawford busts up the little gathering and tattles to Davis: “Your girl was corrupting my twins.” ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 3: Mommy Knows Best. Or Maybe Not. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Trump promised to drain the unsavory elements out of politics, but long before the public ever loathed entrenched politicians, corrupt lobbyists or biased news media, they hated lawyers. Lawyers upon lawyers upon lawyers: In Trump World, everyone has an attorney. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Where previous nightmares included torture at the hands of the military, racial profiling and corrupt elections, many right now are about surveillance — some even name-checking whistleblower Edward Snowden. Our post-Snowden TV paranoia: “Homeland,” “Quantico” and privacy inside the surveillance state 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Brother Sam’s message was simple: Western society was corrupt and disintegrating. Spending My Tenderness on Animals 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z But memory, both collective and individual, is for him a double-edged sword, capable of stimulating and informing the creative act, while also threatening to corrupt it. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The British retreated from empire once its corrupting decadence became manifest. Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century Was Dealing With a Lot, Badly 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “Honest Thief” is about a master thief who tries to turn over his ill-gotten millions to the FBI to start a new relationship on a clean slate, but two corrupt agents spoil his retirement plan. The surprisingly durable second act of Liam Neeson 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z But that’s not the same as thinking it’s worthless or corrupt or entirely inept. Bathe in the self-indulgent broth of “Sausage Party,” most bro-tastic movie ever 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z In the new season of "The Righteous Gemstones," which premiered last weekend, the titular family of corrupt evangelical superstars gathers for a Sunday lunch on the upper floor of a nearby restaurant. Why is BJ always drinking milk on "The Righteous Gemstones"? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z He has shown, and this Muller report reminds us, that this is one of the most corrupt Administrations that we’ve had in a very long time. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z As the United States attorney in Chicago, Mr. Webb was chief prosecutor in Operation Greylord, the undercover investigation of corrupt judges, police officers, lawyers and other public officials in Chicago. Dan K. Webb Is Named Special Prosecutor in Jussie Smollett Case 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Anne’s time was as rife with corrupt monks and courtiers as ours is filled with greedy politicians and financiers. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z If the voting system is corrupt, any loss Mr. Trump may suffer is simply the result of a rigged election, the thinking goes. The 20 Phrases That Defined 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Treating the sick and offering relief to those who suffer are acts of compassion and benevolence that risk being corrupted by economic calculations. Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools? 2011-11-03T17:04:58Z Oliver pointed to a widely reported outbreak of meningitis in 2012, which eventually killed 100 people and stemmed from fungus-infested medicine at a corrupt pharmacy called the New England Compounding Center. 'Wild west of the drug industry': John Oliver takes on compounding pharmacies 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z They use history to evoke a false past of a law-abiding, respectable Black community with little crime before welfare and liberalism corrupted Black people. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z And given the conditions, would permitting a practice we consider corrupt be not just more expedient but somehow morally justifiable? ‘Icarus’ Puts Russia, Cycling and Doping Into One Cocktail 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “That way you grab them before they are corrupted by fraternity brothers.” After Curfew: Younger Boys More Respectful, High School Girls Say 2012-05-25T17:45:48Z If anything, this stunning sequence of music videos should vanquish the idea that music’s truth automatically gets corrupted on film. The better we understand Beyoncé, the more there is to know 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Different firms negotiate the ethical challenges of serving the corrupt and cruel differently. Why is this architecture firm dealing with the NFL and Dan Snyder? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It would almost be better to learn that some higher-ups were corrupt than to learn what “Chasing Madoff” contends: that the agency charged with protecting investors is systemically inept and overmatched. | 'Chasing Madoff': ?Chasing Madoff,? a Documentary of a Fraud - Review 2011-08-25T23:52:10Z Individuals in the agencies did not take bribes — it was the perverse incentives that corrupted the institutions. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z After some early picnic-basket stealing, the story expands into a battle to save Jellystone Park from loggers and corrupt politicians, with a romantic subplot involving Ranger Smith and a cute documentary maker. Jellystone Gets Animated 2010-12-17T11:04:39Z Our election was attacked by Russia and the corrupt GOP is doing everything to make sure we don't put protections in place against it happening again. Mark Duplass faces backlash over endorsing conservative Ben Shapiro, James Gunn comes to his defense 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z But, like any massive group of human beings, we are smart, stupid, driven, lazy, honest, corrupt, insightful, obtuse, compassionate, cruel, fascinating, dull, fun, boring and every gradient in between. How to handle anti-Americanism when you travel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Our politicians are corrupt and we keep electing them. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z Any democracy coupled with unfettered capitalism will not, by definition, be a healthy one; the mechanisms of this democracy will invariably be corrupted by the forces of power and information asymmetry. Neil deGrasse Tyson gets democracy all wrong: We don’t deserve the one we get — we get the one elites gives us 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Dig deeply and you may find a metaphor about corrupt, uncompassionate government. Movie Review: ‘The Bullet Vanishes,’ a Whodunit Directed by Lo Chi-leung 2012-08-31T00:26:52Z He is deeply drawn, though, to focusing on diversity as the serpent in the garden, the major corrupter of his rococo educational vision. Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z A more obvious, appropriate punishment for the corrupt rich is hard to imagine. ‘McMafia’ Review: Crime Catches Up 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “It was one of those situations in which everything became corrupt.” 'Why was there a cover-up?': film-maker Alex Gibney on a case of cold killing in County Down 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Her name is often used as a metaphor and a reminder that power corrupts. Maleficent and 16 Other Famous Queens of Mean 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z A king’s daughter, she was corrupted at an early age and quickly learned the useful tools of seduction and murder. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z War is a storyteller, with a tale so grand and corrupt that even death becomes beautiful. At the Met, Heavy Metal on a Continental Scale 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z West's suggestive shimmy in the show landed her seven days in jail on a charge of "corrupting the morals of youth." Women behave badly in films, and box offices applaud 2011-08-12T21:54:06Z The government cannot be trusted – a position tenaciously held by Republicans – but the police are invariably brutal and corrupt – the opinion of most Democrats. Hey, cowboy 2010-04-25T23:06:00Z "A Song of Ice And Fire" is to normal fantasy what "The Wire" was to typical cops-and-robbers drama, packed with grit, complexity and flawed human beings making their way through a corrupt and intimidating world. The essential guide to "Game of Thrones" 2011-04-09T21:01:00Z If that break involves a lot of screens, remember that new entertainment forms and technologies — from the written word on — have always attracted suspicion that they will pulp or corrupt young minds. How to Entertain Your Kids This Summer 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The most vociferous indictments came from the abolitionist papers in the North, which declared “so bestial a union as this” yet another sign of how slavery had corrupted the Southern soul. ‘Inseparable’ Finds Pride, Indignity and Irony in the Lives of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: Robert Workman "Paris is the city of desire," exclaims the naive juvenile tenor in Puccini's La rondine as he arrives in the metropolis, where he hopes to be corrupted. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z They’re all just a larger story of absolute power corrupting absolutely, so be aware, be afraid, and be good. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z At the heart of the story are Dashiell Bad Horse, who grew up on the reservation and became an undercover agent for the F.B.I., and Lincoln Red Crow, the corrupt casino owner. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: The End of 'Scalped' 2012-11-30T20:18:21Z The moment we appropriate, we identify, and if the identification doesn’t fit, the message can be corrupted and misinterpreted. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z His filmic eye sorts out the people who populate the play: Tutsi elders; Hutu generals; thugs schooled in mass murder; mortified U.N. peacekeepers; corrupted government mouthpieces. Mosaic opens its inaugural curtain with “Unexplored Interior” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Making a Murderer reinforces what we already believe: that power structures are fallible and often corrupt. Guilty pleasure: how Making a Murderer tapped into our weakness for true crime 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Three wealthy women on the Upper East Side of Manhattan band together to exact revenge on a corrupt man. New in Paperback: ‘Rebellion,’ ‘Grant’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z This city is still corrupt, and our broken country earns its gold hauling dirty oil. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript 2012-10-11T09:18:54Z It was a sorry spectacle of nepotism and greed reminiscent of some of the most corrupt regimes of the developing world in our own day. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z “But after electing this corrupt moron, maybe we do. I definitely notice some similarities between them.” Perspective | Did presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson merit a cover story? Some readers had doubts. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Persecution is a given: Lorenzo de Medici is corrupt and vindictive, and Girolamo Savonarola claims it is the will of the plague-ravaged people that homosexuals be burned in public. Review | Sex, politics and art painted in broad strokes in ‘Botticelli in the Fire’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The country, he wrote, was “corrupt, small-minded, diseased. Money is the god here.” William Gedney’s Travels in India 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z While the writers never pretended the larger New York Police Department isn't corrupt, the antagonists representing the worst aspects of the force are generally as feckless as the criminals Jake and the gang pursue. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" returns with an appropriate awkward hello to its farewell season 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z If the film enacts a fall, it is from a relatively guiltless present into a more corrupt past that is also a realm of greater beauty and more intense feeling. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z In her view, the uncontested reign of corrupt men was on the verge of ending. Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The second is that the book exemplifies both the corrupt and brutal way in which the Putin regime does business at home and the cynical help it gets from foreigners when it launders profits abroad. Red sky in the morning 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Denmark is seen as the least corrupt country in the world, topping the index for the third successive year, followed by New Zealand, Finland, Sweden and Norway. Officials hiding ill-gotten gains undermine corruption fight-watchdog 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Oliver called him “audaciously corrupt” and said that it’s like if Hillary Clinton had sent an email with the subject line: “Sup I did Benghazi.” John Oliver on Trump: 'Literally every decision is the worst possible one' 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z And trust me: the tap of each key did not echo like gunfire aimed at a corrupt Mr. Big. All the News That’s Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism 2012-06-08T18:19:24Z The eight ensemble members here are delightfully resourceful as they become an entire population of corrupt thugs and government officials, with little more than a change of headgear. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Stephen Colbert reminds us that many in the Trump camp are both corrupt and dumb. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Officials also accused him of ‘corrupting data’ in regional government computer systems in order to hide his activity. Italian Police Seize 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Wine 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The show is no better or worse – no more or less corrupt – than the casting couches of yore. The X Factor isn't 100% authentic? Hold the front page! 2010-08-23T15:27:00Z Our rampant materialism, boiling planet, corporate overlords, corrupt politics, soulless entertainments, egomaniacal artists, selfish selves: it’s all here, in Tillman’s pitiless exploration of human nature, and of himself. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Not that the corrupt politicians and shady lawyers have gone anywhere. Spiral III: The Butcher of La Villette - episodes one and two 2011-04-02T21:50:00Z I'm asking for one more – just one – great film about man-eating sharks, imperilled metropolitan transportation systems, heroic meteorologists, or the fallout from the policies of a corrupt son of Marcus Aurelius. Where are all the other great shark movies? 2010-07-08T21:36:00Z It is not giving away too much to say that those old standbys — corrupt police and greedy Wall Streeters — also turn out to be involved. Books of The Times: ‘Gun Machine,’ by Warren Ellis 2013-01-02T21:35:39Z Thanks to everything from warped compensation structures to corrupt ratings agencies, the global financial system rotted from the inside out. Books of The Times: Nouriel Roubini Calls for Reform in ?Crisis Economics? 2010-05-06T21:49:00Z And of the impossibility of existing in a self-contained, corrupt world without being at least slightly tainted. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at Signature Center 2012-05-25T02:00:01Z Knowing how Americans could be ripe for the picking by corrupt cops, I was driving in the right lane, cautiously sticking to the speed limit. A Maddening Bargain With a Mexican Police Officer 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Winter’s sustained focus on their work, and the process of it, is a validating touch that rebuts political attempts to paint the profession as corrupt. “The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Visually competent but verbally clogged, this painfully earnest movie wants us to care about the corrupt behavior of medical-equipment purchasing cartels. | 'Puncture': ?Pucture? Stars Chris Evans and Mark Kassen ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z It was a corrupt system fraught with dangers, which were becoming visible to the public. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Civil War nurse Hannah Ropes blew the lid off corrupt conditions at her hospital by taking her complaints directly to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey Thanks to people smugglers both corrupt and callous, however, the family’s seaborne flight goes horribly awry. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Any substantial exchange of money involving a journalist has the power to corrupt, he said, or at least create the appearance of it. Thomas Friedman’s columns prompt a different kind of ethical question for the New York Times 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z There was a sense that politics was corrupt, that those who made their lives and careers in politics were not to be trusted. Trump, Fiorina and why the “CEO president” rarely succeeds: “Politics is not just something one can pick up” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z So why stick to an outdated, confusing, likely corrupt nominating process that ignores voters’ actual preferences? This feminist is sticking with Bernie Sanders: Why Hillary backers need to take another long, honest look 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z This is an agreeably nasty tale about a corrupt lawyer working all the angles, including, it’s safe to assume, a possible movie franchise. | 'The Lincoln Lawyer': Operating on the Margins of Pay-to-Play Justice 2011-03-17T22:43:00Z Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides wrote tragedies about the human spirit shattered, corrupted, and abused by war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s a myth that the industry corrupts you, you corrupt yourself. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Still, wealth doesn’t appear to be corrupting him, not yet. | 'Boomtown': A Little Place That Finds Itself Receiving Big Money 2011-01-29T00:03:18Z Though Coleman is treated sympathetically throughout the novel, he is shadowed by his corrupt morality. A boy caught between love and race 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z It was rumored that the corrupt mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin — allegedly pal to to some of the coast's big drug dealers — was behind the arrests. In St. Tropez, the Rolling Stones made "Exile on Main St." — and turned rock stars into high society 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. C may have set this murder in motion, using the powers of Bob to possess the corrupt and the corruptible. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episodes 1-2: Back in Style 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Rousseau's thesis was that children were essentially good, but became corrupted by society and the influence of civilisation. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z Without a word to her daughter, she had taken it to the head, who expelled Beryl three weeks later as a corrupting moral influence. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z "Wherever there’s a chance to make crazy dollars, because baseball is a crazy financial piggy bank, of course things are going to get a little corrupt." John Leguizamo Steps Up to the Plate for Dominican Ballplayers 2012-07-11T15:07:05Z I was part of the generation of children that “The Simpsons” was bound to corrupt. Before I Was Homer, I Was Bart 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z What’s the remedy for a person who has been convicted based on so-called science that we now know to be faulty, corrupt or both? The Epidemic of Wrongful Convictions in America 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z A cabal of corrupt officials—including a police officer, a district attorney, a defense attorney, and a judge—helps to free the suspects. “Peppermint,” Reviewed: Jennifer Garner Stars in an Ignorant, Racist Drug-Trade Revenge Film 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Vienna has grown corrupt under his slack leadership, but he doesn't want to be the heavy. 'Measure for Measure': Pop the cork and settle in for the latest free Shakespeare in Griffith Park 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Anyone who's read the His Dark Materials books will know what Pullman thinks of the church – that despite all the good it has done, it is corrupt, corrupting and sometimes murderous. The Gospels, according to Philip Pullman 2010-03-29T15:14:00Z Lord Acton's dictum about absolute power corrupting absolutely has a show-business analogue: absolute notoriety all too often tends to corrupt absolutely too. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z They will say that the wounded former believer was prone to anxiety or depression or obsession in the first place — that his Christianity somehow got corrupted by his predisposition to psychological problems. The crazy-making in Christianity: Religion’s cycle of self-doubt and self-punishment 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The women, who are primarily young, educated and middle class, felt the need to protest what they viewed as Putin’s brutal, corrupt and totalitarian rule. Pussy Riot on Trial: The Case Against the Anti-Putin Feminist Rockers 2012-07-31T12:00:36Z Like that film, it depicts a society so rotten and corrupt that decency becomes either stupid or suicidal. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Large companies, particularly in finance and technology, were exposed to be so corrupt that they deformed the nature of democracy. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z With the arrival of the newcomers, the Snelgraves' quarantine, enforced by the corrupt Kabe, who stalks the streets like death itself, must begin all over again. One Flea Spare ? review 2011-04-06T17:58:40Z Nick, found guilty of the theft because of trumped-up evidence given by his corrupted colleagues, faces 25 years in prison after his appeal is turned down. Movie Review: ?Man on a Ledge,? With Ed Harris as an Evil Real Estate Tycoon 2012-01-26T23:44:01Z They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is not one who does good.” Non-believers taking college campuses by storm 2013-02-16T13:00:00Z He witnesses its deepest truth, that it is at once powerful and corrupt. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z The project was less about examining the corrupting effects of time on beauty, he said, “than about exploring time itself.” The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z One of our favourites was the dreaded Captain Sangray, a corrupt pirate known for his inhumane habits. Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-06-08T08:01:00Z Traoré, a former political activist, attempts to improve conditions for his workers and resists layoffs requested by Sissoko, his corrupt and imperious boss. “Baara”: A Must-See Film of Patriarchal Abuse, at the New York African Film Festival 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The policemen are as corrupt as the politicians, and everyone seems to be on the make. In This Novel, One Sister Is a Nurse. The Other Is a Murderer. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Cast: Colin Farrell as Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him. Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell Will Star in Second Season of HBO's True Detective 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The heroes of the movie are a driving team with their own custom-car garage, while the baddies hail from the corrupt old regime and have millions stashed away. ‘Seoul Vibe’ Review: Grinding Gears 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Armando, a Castro loyalist, has struggled to keep up all his life with the wiles of corrupt government officials. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Movies usually reflect the neuroses and submerged fears of society: that politicians are corrupt, that men are ruthless predators, that Madonna might make another movie. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z Others would stop Byron on his evening rides to accuse him of corrupting the local girls and youth. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z Its clients are influential Cambodian men and other members of Asia's elite who enjoy total impunity from a corrupt justice system. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Implicating himself again, he explained that he works in a business — the music business — that he finds embarrassingly corrupt and sexist. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But likewise, there would be no point to say what we can read in the newspapers about how corrupt they are. "A Cop Movie" director: "Being a cop involves performance. You put on a costume and play a part" 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z With no true king the land is beset with corrupt, money-grubbing lords whose only interest is their own prestige. George RR Martin's fantasy is not far from reality 2011-07-26T11:52:51Z Not merely a saga of coked-up trashy hoods, it's a modern-day parable on loyalty, betrayal and the corrupting influence of power. Imported gems 2010-04-20T12:59:00Z All this says to me is that once again "power corrupts". Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It seems to say that this relationship is itself the fundamentally corrupting element of the entire art project, with inescapable consequences for all involved. ‘Filthy Lucre’ and the complicated relationship between artist and buyer 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z For the French as for the British, luxury was potentially corrupting, so it needed to be purified. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z It cannot be unknown to you, Sir, that our intentions have been vilified, and our characters traduced by the unprincipled scribes, of a venal and corrupt press. Women's role at Peterloo revisited in Manchester anniversary walk 2012-08-15T09:33:47Z Though the chaebol are usually portrayed in film and television as powerful and elegant people, under Im's lens they live luxurious but corrupt and morally bankrupt lives. Raw, gritty film takes on Korea's powerful chaebol 2012-06-13T05:15:55Z Prosecutors typically support leniency for defendants who cooperate, especially those, like Harris, who played such key roles in bringing down a corrupt governor. Blago ex-chief of staff to be sentenced today 2012-03-28T17:54:00Z Images of the Niger Delta, polluted by international oil companies that have turned Nigeria into a corrupt petro-state, are, in a word, hellish. Review: ‘Time to Choose’ Extols Renewable Energy to Combat Global Warming 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Over a crisp Afrobeats groove with hints of Middle Eastern modes, besieged by sudden salvos of percussion, the Nigerian songwriter Tiwa Savage suavely mocks corrupt, immoral politicians. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z In many places long before the War on Poverty supposedly corrupted the morals of Black America, a slew of researchers found high rates of violence. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The all-time greatest rejection, though, goes to George C. Scott, who denounced his Best Actor nomination for "Patton," calling the awards "offensive, barbarous and innately corrupt." Strange but true stories from Academy Awards past 2013-02-20T16:36:13Z He's cocky, and clever, and just barely this side of being completely corrupt and he took me by surprise. Charles Fleming on vintage Hollywood and his novel 'The Studio Kill' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z But is it a match for the corrupt power of materialism? Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury; The Locust and the Bee by Geoff Mulgan – review 2013-05-04T14:00:04Z Do you enjoy corrupting the youth of America? Building bridges with the book-banners 2010-09-29T11:00:00Z Joel Edgerton has the less showy role as a corrupt FBI agent, but he’s arguably the lead of the thriller, and holds the entire enterprise together with his deft work. Oscars 2016: a look at early frontrunners after the Toronto film festival 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Or the difficulties posed by one resident, ultimately expelled: “I think she would corrupt a Nunnery in a fortnight.” Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z It also ordered a first season of “The Boys,” a show based on a comic book about a squad that subdues corrupt superheroes. Did You Hear the One About the Housewife Who Walks Into a Comedy Club? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z "Vice, like rust or vermin, is corrupting our values and morally crippling the rising generation." The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough – review 2013-04-13T13:30:01Z “God told me,” Birdsong recalled, “what my whole life was about. He said, ‘I gave you all these things and you got corrupted in them.’ The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z But he’s delivering the unfortunate news that sometimes orphaned children don’t get to save the day; sometimes they’re just pawns in a chess game played by corrupt ideologues. Alain Mabanckou's 'Black Moses' is an orphan story with biting humor 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “For example I watched ‘The Killing,’ the American version, on TV, and there’s a lot of politics to it, and the mayor of Seattle is corrupt and all that. ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z As I got older, I realized that the morality and the virtue of the figures that represented me in society were very, very corrupt, and didn't stand for things that were virtuous. "Better Call Saul" star on playing "the only character breaking good when everybody's breaking bad" 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z In the Fox News era, the nation that turned against Nixon’s corrupt rejection of the rule of law may not even exist anymore. Perspective | Trump might survive firing Rosenstein or even Mueller. The reason: Fox News. 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In our production, you know what everyone does for a job and get a sense of society having been corrupted. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The meticulously prepared, relentlessly probing truth-seeker delivered countless thunderclap exposés and practically patented the ambush interview, pouncing on corrupt politicians and shady businessmen to demand answers with his camera crew trailing behind. How Mike Wallace created ‘a revolution’ in journalism — while battling depression 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Times’s art critic, Christopher Knight, scathed the “morally corrupt” collaboration as “merely putting lipstick on a pig.” Art Rises in the Saudi Desert, Shadowed by Politics 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Any parallels you may infer to corrupting compromises in American foreign policy are up to you, but if the Charles Jourdan shoe fits. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z But despite the committed performances of the cast members, their characters too often seem like prisoners not only of a corrupt social order, but also of a pedagogical vision. Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Power corrupts, goes the old line, but maybe it doesn’t, not here. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster 2012-04-23T10:07:39Z An itinerant gambler and masseuse, Zatoichi roams a country apparently teeming with vicious gangs and corrupt officials. Top 10 Movie Swordsmen 2011-10-20T09:00:13Z The lights went down, and the episode began on the big screen, drawing viewers into a corrupt Roaring Twenties Atlantic City with violence and costumes as fantastic as any look during Fashion Week. Scene City: The Gangsters Are All Here 2013-09-04T21:57:14Z Irons plays corrupt and twisted men so vividly that we tend to remember the bad things he does and forget how funny he is while he's doing him. "Camelot" and "Borgias": Blood, boobs and costume drama 2011-04-02T18:01:00Z The new season deposits us in tiny Vinci, Calif., less a town than a scam, a haven for sweatshop owners and a goldmine for corrupt city officials. Review: More Angst, Less Poetry in a Lesser True Detective 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z An epic tale of a young woman fleeing a corrupt Ming dynasty governor, the movie was initially shown in two parts, over Hu’s objections. ‘A Touch of Zen’ Serves Up Swordplay and Lyricism 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z After leading a succession of feuding and corrupt coalitions, the Congress Party was detested. Witness to a landslide 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s gradual, and I loved how power corrupted these people. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z While he and his friends smuggle anything of value into the ghetto, he falls under the influence of a corrupt Jewish police officer who demands information for his Gestapo bosses. ‘The Book of Aron,’ by Jim Shepard, is a masterpiece 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He etched a subdued portrait of a corrupt soul who cannot tolerate the presence of unalloyed goodness in the world. Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera 2012-05-06T16:31:04Z Mr. Saakashvili was elected in 2004 after leading the so-called Rose Revolution, which swept away a corrupt leadership, and was hailed as a promoter of democracy. New York Philharmonic to Perform in Georgia 2010-06-22T22:15:00Z And once you’ve been corrupted, there’s no way of going back.” Post Script: Mad Men's Jared Harris on Lane Pryce's Final Act 2012-06-05T10:45:43Z The belief that the early published editions are insuperably corrupt originated in the Third Reich. Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z Do you think even the most corrupt politicians like Clay Davis believe that they are helping their communities? “Wire” actor on his famous catchphrase: “I still say it” 2013-09-05T14:40:00Z It’s an auto-portrait, but he has blue eyes, a reference to his father, who was a corrupt police officer. A Brooklyn Artist Finds Inspiration, and Refuge, in Puerto Rico 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The new arts center is tainted by its association with a range of predatory powers, including corrupt politicians. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z He is both corrupt and pure, a dynastic potentate in a helicopter and a solitary cowpuncher in the saddle. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s depressing but unsurprising when generals happily hold forth on the presumably innate “Oriental” indifference to human life or when President Lyndon B. Johnson compares the corrupt dictator Diem to Winston Churchill. In the Heat of Battle, ‘In the Year of the Pig’ 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z "The judge's resume would frankly bring tears to the eyes of any corrupt politician," said former U.S. Blagojevich judge urges students to keep the faith in public officials 2012-04-20T11:00:00Z He’s both degenerate and steadfast, lazy and indefatigable, corrupt and true. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z The audience flinched during "Miss Violence" as traditional family relationships were shown to be hideously corrupted after one of the children commits suicide on her 11th birthday. Perversion pervades Venice film fest with modern Greek tragedy 2013-09-01T18:58:43Z Who is the main enemy of the corrupt local police force? Are you watching Top of the Lake or The Returned? – quiz 2013-07-24T09:00:00Z Early on, the Bush administration was not interested in nation-building and was happy with a conciliatory president who would co-opt corrupt warlords, not imprison them. Karzai Inc 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z We need more stories like Fannie’s — the triumph and good life of a lucky black woman in a deeply corrupt world. Mama Was a Numbers Runner 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But among the world leaders whose corrupt complicity is exposed in the Panama Papers’ revelations, Trump’s presence is relatively light. “The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z But your boss thinks it’s OK, so you go ahead, making one corrupt compromise after another, until you realise the line you weren’t supposed to cross disappeared some time ago. Alex Gibney: ‘Every business Trump touched withered and died’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z On some level, it’s a justifiable act: Detective Brendan McCann is corrupt, depraved and a menace to his fellow officers and the citizens alike. AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ is a dark portrait in a dark city 2013-08-07T21:59:48Z Ms. Gerrard emphasized that she, and the choir’s other new collaborators, took pains not to corrupt the women’s essential sound. An Unlikely Union Between an ’80s Rock Star and a Folk Choir Blossoms in Bulgaria 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Tina Flintoff, the Channel 4 features commissioning editor, said that while TV is "more honest that it's ever been" in some areas, "there's no point denying it's not a corrupt business". TV industry 'quite corrupt' with reality stars, says Channel 4 executive 2011-08-27T13:18:00Z Frank’s grand play for respectability has backfired entirely: instead of going straight, he is corrupting himself further. True Detective: season two, episode six recap – Church in Ruins 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The money rolls in, and soon a couple of corrupt white cops are making aggressive requests to dip their beaks. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The main characters in “Treme” aren’t the overburdened cops, spiraling addicts, ruthless dealers, struggling dockworkers, corrupt politicians or compromised journalists of “The Wire.” Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z The defense also complained that other defendants convicted in the probe — particularly corrupt political insider Stuart Levine — face far less time in prison than prosecutors are seeking for Rezko. Day of reckoning for Blago aide Rezko 2011-11-22T10:48:00Z In both films hints of excess in service to virtue are readily cheered and all opposition made to look corrupt and worse. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z Much of the destruction of “Endgame” is generated by the corrupt mayor and a local crime boss and their diminishing armies of men. ‘Endgame’ — a Turkish seaside noir by Ahmet Altan 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The training that cops have is so deeply ingrained that even when it’s corrupted, you don’t know which way they’re going to jump. John Hillcoat Narrates a Scene From ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z His house and land are being taken from him by the state, represented here by a drunken and corrupt mayor who is closely advised by an Orthodox priest. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Scott said that the corrupting force of power is a persistent theme in his films because it is how history is often made. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z He admitted people here often have more faith in the rebels than the corrupt government. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z He lost Carol, but gained Noah and a burning desire to go back and save her from the corrupt crew holed up in the hospital. 'The Walking Dead' recap: The storylines get 'Crossed' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z There have been reports on how corrupt it is. Saving "All These Sons" from gun violence in Chicago 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z All of them, he says, have become corrupted by norms and misplaced incentives that in turn corrupt the behavior of actors who are themselves operating not out of venality but are caught in institutional webs. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This house that is destined to fall is the corrupt institution of slavery. Review: In a New Orleans ‘House,’ Wealthy Women Are Haunted by Slavery’s Ghosts 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Indonesian police denied her a concert permit after Islamic hard-liners mounted protests, saying her show would corrupt the youth. ArtsBeat: Lady Gaga Shows Prompt Protest in Philippines 2012-05-18T16:25:11Z The show, which began Dec. 14 and was aired three nights a week, told the story of a fictitious Thai prime minister, his corrupt deputy, black magic and political manipulation. TV drama's cancellation causes uproar in Thailand 2013-01-07T13:01:05Z Sex trafficking, corrupt leaders and the despoiling of the Earth are some of the timeless challenges Greeks and Trojans faced during that era. Review | Natalie Haynes’s ‘A Thousand Ships’ brilliantly reframes the Trojan War 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z And you may question the accuracy of his view of a corrupt world in which he feels like a prisoner. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Nature produces monsters, and life evolves into corrupted versions of itself. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z It was all a plot, he said, by Mr. Filin and his allies in the Bolshoi to remove him from the scene because he was vocal about their corrupt practices and would not be intimidated. Out of Prison for Acid Attack, Dancer Hopes to Get Back to the Bolshoi 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “Despotism corrupts the person who submits to it far more than the person who imposes it. . . . Courtiers are always vile.” Perspective | Tocqueville’s ‘Democracy in America,’ read anew in 2020, feels prophetic — and in some ways, hopeful 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z This leads to a dramatic turn of events, involving a serial killer and one deadly, corrupt politician. Stephen King: 10 More Books He Should Write Sequels To 2013-09-26T09:45:09Z “Spotlight” depicts a righteous newspaper crusade against a corrupted religious hierarchy of enormous power and influence. “The Revenant” is Trump, “Spotlight” is Bernie: What this best picture race tells us about our divided America 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z No one makes that clearer than Mr. Weinstein, who stands accused of corrupting the artistic process to take advantage of women even as he has strong-armed his films to Oscar gold. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Here, though, the men’s relationship, with its kindness, virtues and mutual dependences, also offers a vision of an American dream not yet wholly corrupted by unbridled self-interest. Around the Movie World in 17 Days at the New York Film Festival 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z That decorous age, with its bourgeois pieties and hypocrisies, was viewed in the distorting mirrors of a criminal underclass, which in turn was meant to reflect the socially corrupt Germany of the 1920s. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z Mr Burgis offers a rich collage of examples showing the links between corrupt companies and African elites. Blood earth 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The next hearing is a dive into Trump's efforts to corrupt the Justice Department, a development about which former Attorney General Bill Barr has already dropped hints. From clear scripts to big-name casting, the Jan. 6 hearings meet the standards of must-see TV 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z And if we’re feeling skittish about technology corrupting the integrity of our music, it’s about time we get over that for good. ‘American Idol’ ruined how we listen to singers. Did Auto-Tune fix it? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Those bad habits, as Muti sees it, include inflicting deep cuts on the scores, using old, corrupt editions and treating Verdi's carefully notated markings with cavalier disregard. The maestro tackles a masterpiece: Muti discusses his CSO 'Otello' 2011-04-06T15:44:00Z With schism on the ground and corrupt leadership at the top, any objective observer of the European scene in 1540 would likely have concluded that the days of the ancient Church of Rome were numbered. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Traditional institutions of liberalism, including the Democratic Party, are, in Hedges’ view, hopelessly corrupted. A Modern Jeremiah Sees National Decline Everywhere He Looks 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Pope Gregory XVI once rejected streetlights as the devil’s work and centuries of papal, noble or politically corrupt misrule kept the city in the dark. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z There are Chinese gangs and malicious pit bull breeders, scheming hip-hop producers and, in his new book, a group of corrupt former soldiers with a history of torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib. Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z A petition calling on the president to crack down on predatory and corrupt practices the scandals have exposed has gathered more than 200,000 signatures. Sex, lies and video: K-pop world rocked by sex scandals 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Her father cast the local school as a corrupt example of the dangerous world outside the home. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z That her answer to all of those questions is unfavorable to Naz doesn’t make her corrupt, because she could be right on all counts. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z An agnostic Jewish cop named Bublanski says sadly of his department, “Inevitably there were corrupt and depraved people in the force.” ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z In an interview with Lepore, Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker and a onetime friend of Pool’s, called him “the most corrupt social scientist I had ever met, without question.” The Bumbling 1960s Data Scientists Who Anticipated Facebook and Google 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The institutions in which ordinary people might place their trust, and to which they might commit their honest labor, were discovered to be dysfunctional and corrupt. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z Katz also questions the conventional wisdom that the Haitian government is too corrupt to be entrusted with more of the money. 'Big Truck' details disastrous Haiti aid effort 2013-01-21T17:25:18Z A corrupt system that doesn’t care about our children. Parkland’s David Hogg: ‘Children having to go through active shooter drills is not what freedom looks like to me’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The photos are in a corrupted state, aged and bleached, providing a visual metaphor for the passing of glory and the fading of pomp. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z "My heart has been completely broken as we have more and more examples of people who have suffered at the hands of corrupt police." Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z That’s just as well, as the novel quickly settles into a deft commentary on the nuances of race and culture in a politically corrupt post-colonial society. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z In the movie based on a Don DeLillo novel of the same name, capitalism is corrupting, characters cannot communicate, and people joke that rats could be the new currency. "Cosmopolis" brings star Pattinson to Cannes 2012-05-25T11:49:47Z The show uses religion both in metaphorical and literal ways: General structures of power, both religious and not, are corrupted and crumbling. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Life maims, after all, and corrupts and scars. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Jenny returns to the block for one final season as Detective Harlee Santos, a corrupt officer in a Brooklyn precinct full of them. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Affair’ and ‘Parts Unknown’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z So his own behavior is part of a corrupt system. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z One is an arrogant and corrupt bully who bosses around his partner and suggests that they kill Ali there to avoid all the bureaucratic fuss. | 'The Hunter': ?The Hunter? by Rafi Pitts - Review 2012-01-03T23:01:40Z “Patient brokering corrupts our health care system because decisions are motivated by greed instead of a patient’s needs,” Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement Friday. Lindsay Lohan’s dad accused of taking kickbacks from rehab 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z The work was so haphazard that when Shakespeare died in 1616, Mays writes, “half of his plays existed only in pirated, corrupted, and bastardized printings far removed from his original language.” ‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea Mays 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z If the West is serious about Ukraine, it must stop enabling Russia’s corrupt oligarchs. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-20T18:14:27Z Another group of wealthy white businessmen are there to celebrate its unveiling: most of the corrupt individuals involved setting it up are dead, but there’s always someone there to take their place. True Detective: season two, episode eight recap – Omega Station 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In his way are poverty, an abusive father, a corrupt cop and a bad case of asthma; in his corner are a washed-up Olympian and a kindly American doctor. | 'The Kid: Chamaco': Boxing Dreams 2010-08-06T02:15:00Z While I understand the historians comments on the musical, I do believe that the script does show, in many ways, a Hamilton who is very complicated and fairly morally corrupt. ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They In Sync? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It's a valuable contrast to the writing of many young authors today who see, with good reason, the religions that claim to represent them as corrupted to the purposes of oppression. Alif the Unseen: speculative fiction meets the Arab spring 2012-12-13T09:58:14Z Cold War obsessions led Washington to overthrow democratic governments, connive in assassination, make common cause with corrupt dictators and turn a blind eye to genocidal violence. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The community looks to see if a band has been polluted by its exposure to the corrupting influences of the mainstream. Ask the indie professor: why shout for a song the band will never play? 2010-08-16T13:39:00Z Mendieta is a classic pulp detective: hapless, tough and driven, kind of corrupt but the only cop around not on the cartel’s payroll. In a sea of corpses, a lone detective struggles to solve one murder at a time 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z So his latest album about an influential but corrupt court eunuch may not sound all that odd to his fans. Jay Chou raps about a corrupt eunuch 2012-12-27T12:46:05Z Many remember it as having once been one of the most brutal and corrupt institutions in the post-Civil War South, the nearest kin to slavery that could legally exist. An Angola Tower and Cell Are Bound for National Mall 2013-07-08T17:06:35Z “To be honest,” she says, “until I chanced on Gaysi, I thought I was the only one with these corrupted same-sex desires.” Inside Gaysi: the blog transforming India’s queer scene 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Q: Both "Wall Street" films criticize the industry for not doing that, charging that it doesn't produce things of value and that it's corrupt. Wall Street insider looks into "Money Never Sleeps" 2010-09-24T12:59:00Z Not that there was anything wrong with that, but the motives of most people were not likely to help a fragile and corrupt country stuck somewhere between the seventh century and Vegas.” Books of The Times: Battle-Zone Absurdity and Adrenaline-Fueled Folly 2011-03-14T22:57:21Z While foraging in the Brazilian city's rubbish dumps, their characters stumble upon a wallet and a key being sought by a corrupt police officer. Daldry film wins Rome festival award 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The theatre world has always been Catholic Church levels of corrupt. Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z How it corrupted a medieval scholar turned despot. ‘The Spine of Night’ Review: Cosmic Forces at Work 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Comfort corrupts, I guess – I shrugged and continued to overstay my welcome in my boyfriend’s parent’s French summer chateau. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Yet Boris is hardly the only corrupt character in the opera. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z But here too the painful sense of love too easily corrupted by mistrust and manipulation doesn’t cut very deeply. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Sources close to the project in the Caribbean country have warned that the move risks embroiling the prince in Haiti's complex and often corrupt politics. Prince Charles drafted in to help rebuild quake damaged Port-au-Prince 2010-10-10T19:17:00Z As in the earlier film, Priest also faces corrupt police officers who are in on the drug trade. “Superfly,” Reviewed: A Classic Remade for a Gun-Mad Age 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Her belief that only corrupt cops have anything to worry about comes back to bite her resoundingly when she gets reprimanded for a sexual misconduct complaint. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z To my eye, Shakespeare's corrupted DNA still coils inside, curled idiosyncratically around his co-author Fletcher's, squeezing every drop of pulpy melodrama out of Cervantes' original Cardenio chapters. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Other inspirations include the Goya self-portrait The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, in which the napping artist is plagued by flapping bats, generally interpreted as a critique of Spanish society as ignorant, insane and corrupt. Jonathan Glazer: 'Nazism took hold like a fever. It's happening again' 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z “It just seemed — corrupt is the word to use,” he said. Help Is On the Way, Restaurants Are Told. But Will It Work? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Even in the corrupt Harding Administration, Daugherty was a colossal crook, a man who helped the Prohibition Bureau become, in the words of a historian whom Okrent quotes, “a chaos of spoils.” Boardwalk Empire Recap: A Chaos of Spoils 2012-09-23T22:04:22Z Oliver in particular frequently receives positive acclaim for presenting deeply researched segments every week, diving into such public interest segments as corrupt government and corporate practices and alarming political trends. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The exact duration of the hero’s flight from a corrupt espionage establishment is left open-ended. “Condor,” Reviewed: A Classic Paranoid Thriller, Rewired for the Contemporary Nervous System 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Eventually they are intercepted by corrupt federal agents. Robert Stone, award-winning author of ‘A Hall of Mirrors,’ ‘Dog Soldiers,’ dies at 77 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The music business is corrupt, a spiritually corrupt arena. Sinéad O’Connor: Miley and I Created an Important Conversation About Mental Health 2013-11-14T12:00:46Z If there were corrupt admirals here and there, they were just bad apples. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Ambiguity 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Criminal networks working with corrupt officials are a significant problem in central and western Africa, said Rudi van Aarde of the University of Pretoria zoology department. Separating elephant species shows they are closer to extinction than scientists thought 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z That the NFL is a corrupt institution as a whole that I simply cannot support if I care about women. Women Don't Have to Boycott the NFL 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z One scene ends when corrupt police fire 46 bullets into an unarmed man. Caleb Carr’s ‘Surrender, New York’ echoes ‘The Alienist’ in theme if not setting 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Rather than preserve our past, "photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories." Sally Mann's memoir 'Hold Still' as lyrical as her photos 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But this is the season, nay, the era of corrupt public personas washing away the stains of their past in the river of media exposure. Brace yourself for the Bill Cosby media redemption tour 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Man teeters on the brink of bestiality in and finally yields, coaxed into the labyrinth of Iago's corrupt mind. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z I admire the fact that he seems to have found a way to take a system that is rotten and corrupt, and turn it to his advantage. “Trump is kind of scary. I get the feeling he might actually pull it off”: Michael Shannon on “99 Homes,” the economic collapse and the eroding American Dream 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z “I’m back, ready for battle,” Weintraub tweeted Jan. 5, calling his followers to support him in his fight against “oligarchs, corrupt individuals and the communist-socialist ideological wing.” Far-right Bolsonaro fires latest round in Brazil culture war 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z I always thought the worry was just about what commercial use all the data collected would be put to, not about corrupt detectives worming their way into your knickers. TV review: Vexed and Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Balloon Adventure 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z I can’t help but think back to Netflix’s Making a Murderer, a documentary series that illustrates a scenario in which the presumption of guilt is so strong that the process is corrupted beyond recognition. The People v OJ Simpson: episode three – the Dream Team comes together 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The musical then pushes back against its own skepticism, depicting the powers-that-be as corrupt, cynical and manipulative, exploiting the anxieties of Judas and the other apostles. Review: In ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ an Old Story for (Yet Another) New Millennium 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z My romantic imagination had been corrupted by outrageous expectations and mindless fantasizing that bore as much resemblance to real life as a Hollywood action film. Modern Love: How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance 2014-01-23T19:38:45Z A political drama about an oppressive, corrupt regime trying to avert insurrection is compelling, even if this rendering of it seems a little out of date. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Subtitle: A plucky lawyer takes on a corrupt system. Perspective | A cover story: The art of the pointless subtitle 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Some art demands it, no matter how dull or corrupt the critical apparatus of the viewer. Donald and Melania Trump’s Last Judgment 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “It’s a corrupt system and directly affects the way natural resources are being handled,” Straumann told the Hollywood Reporter. Leonardo DiCaprio urged to repay donations to Malaysian rainforest fund 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The great gulf between the rich and poor, corrupt financiers, corrupt Members of Parliament ... Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday 2012-02-07T23:46:05Z All too often, sex is regarded as a base activity liable to corrupt and enfeeble participants, having such intoxicating power it could annihilate an individual's work ethic. Don't give up sex, Matt Cardle 2010-12-15T18:01:47Z “When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.” The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The adult insistence that children are innocents corrupted by civilisation is a presumption the brothers want to subvert. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z The word itself is unsettling, presupposing the existence of a corrupt and oppressing power, rather like the term “uprising” changes the debate about what actually happened in Baltimore— protests? A young photographer made the Baltimore Uprising unforgettable 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It was nothing more than a kidnapping for ransom perpetrated by corrupt police. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The bandit swaps identities with his hostage and becomes mayor, only to find himself locked in a battle of wits against a corrupt businessman who made his fortune from tobacco and human trafficking. Chinese director coy on political satire's message 2011-01-11T14:49:09Z Still, it conveys information about such subjects as the corrupt Venetian doge for whose tomb the work was commissioned, the accident that befell the masterpiece at the Met and, yes, fig leaves. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Increasingly popular is the Michelle Obama-inspired defence: when they go low, you go high, holding the dignified moral high ground so as not to get corrupted by your supposed betters’ prevailing nonsense. Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached ‘peak asshole’? 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z I don’t believe the Clintons are fundamentally corrupt, but jeez — how could a master politician like Bill Clinton allow himself to indulge in such a flagrant appearance of impropriety? Joe Klein of ‘Primary Colors’ Reviews the Latest on Bill Clinton 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Through immersive prose and a riveting plot, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those who gain it, and those resisting its loss. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z But Ridley uses actual accounts of trafficking, neglect and abuse to draw the viewer into the morally corrupted world of an agricultural business under pressure to provide consumers everything they desire at a low cost. Opiate for the masses: “American Crime” is better than ever and still hard to swallow 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Last year, for example, Abel Tesfaye, who performs as the Weeknd, accused the Grammys of being “corrupt” after he failed to receive any nominations, despite his album “After Hours” being a gigantic hit. Jon Batiste and Young Chart-Toppers Lead 2022 Grammy Nominations 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z On the other are those who saw him as a lifelong victim — a developmentally arrested and unjustly maligned black entertainer who was a magnet for tabloid opportunists, corrupt cops and scheming frauds. Michael Jackson Biographers Face History, and the Mirror 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z I'm interested in how that dream is unbelievable, extraordinarily powerful, and possibly corrupt. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z Johnson also has ultimate, but not operational, responsibilty for the Metropolitan Police, the force investigating phone hacking by Murdoch's News of the World and alleged corrupt payments made by Sun journalists. Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch have another private meeting 2013-01-26T20:04:04Z A cook stabs a corrupt politician who ruined the life of a waitress in her café. 'Wild Tales' weighed down by clunky filmmaking 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z His fears were verified; the Teamsters were conspiring with Portland's corrupt district attorney to cut him out. 'Dark Rose': an era of vice and corruption in Portland 2011-08-11T20:54:04Z Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight, she says tens of thousands of the country's poorest people are suffering at the hands of corrupt governments bought and sold by big corporations. VIDEO: Arundhati Roy: India's success a 'lie' 2011-06-02T00:34:13Z He referred to Trump as “chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose.” Perspective | ‘We’re not doctors’: The perils for journalists in assessing Trump’s mental health 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z What corrupt mogul would say no to that? ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Her victories were aided by the politically corrupt leaders of the Labour Party and of many Trades Unions. Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe' 2013-04-09T09:19:56Z Both are clearly corrupted by their intense emotions and allow those qualities to drive how they use the Force. The Force, explained and what its patterns could mean for "Rise of Skywalker" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet fans of the show -- which Thomas pitched as "teen noir" -- loved its sharp banter and the dark atmosphere of a corrupt California town, the fictional Neptune. With help from thousands, 'Veronica Mars' reborn 2014-03-13T13:37:28Z He writes in "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption from America's Most Notorious Lobbyist" that there still are plenty of corrupt lobbying practices that are perfectly legal. Abramoff criticizes reforms after lobbying scandal 2011-11-07T12:44:10Z This sense of persecution still persists today: Achebe believes that Igbo people are the engine of Nigeria's advancement, stifled by a corrupt elite that prefers power and mediocrity to meritocracy. There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z But Juan — and initially, Buchanan — is scheduled to hang for murder in a corrupt border town, run by a self-dealing family whose members include the sheriff and the judge. Don’t Get What’s So Great About Westerns? Start Here 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Then what's intriguing to me is that she becomes corrupted by her surroundings. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s a complicated scam, and he relies on mobbed-up investors and corrupt city officials to smooth his way. Review: ‘True Detective,’ Season 2 on HBO, Plays a Symphony of Misery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Not all gamers and not even all those who support #GamerGate attack women or support misogynist views, however — some participants view the movement as an inquisition into corrupt practices among gaming journalists. What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This s a film about a corrupt social organism, where the corruption is measured in guilt, and which perpetuates itself despite the self-hate it triggers. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z And "The White Tiger" invites viewers to root for a man whose behavior is likely no worse than the corrupt Master he serves. "The White Tiger" is a terrifically cynical tale of an ambitious man who games the system 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z In its better moments, Gawker has presented a bracing antidote to the corrupted professionalism of Judy Miller and her ilk. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z A very bold and deliberately outrageous fable, then, rehearsing Pullman's familiar and passionate fury at corrupt religious systems of control – but also introducing something quite different, a voice of genuine spiritual authority. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Is he drawing parallels between the “corrupt officials” of the Qing dynasty and the spate of recent high-profile cases involving corrupt Chinese business executives and politicians? ‘Dr. Sun Yat-sen’ in the American Premiere at Santa Fe Opera 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Coal was making West Virginia the Appalachian equivalent of the Wild West: There was outrageous wealth to be had, particularly if you were a politician, the law, corrupt, or all of the above. 'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z She thinks it’s “corrupt” and a “walking, partying conflict of interest.” Inside a sweaty D.C. media tradition: Getting the cool kids to sit with you at nerd prom 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z At the end of the 19th century there’s an attempt to recover these people as a kind of purer Anglo Saxon, that they have been protected from being corrupted. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Flash back a decade, to the port city ofBusan, where Ik-hyun is a low-level, corrupt shipping yard customs officer on the verge of losing his job. Nameless Gangster: The Korean Mob Film Scorsese Would Be Proud Of 2012-04-10T10:45:25Z Other parts of the academic world have been corrupted as well, Lessig writes, with experts as hired guns who are now paid to testify. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z “The initial movement, in its purest form, was amazing. It got corrupted because now it’s represented as anti-gun and anti-NRA. ‘Boycott this, boycott that.’ A conservative Parkland student’s whirlwind trip to D.C. ended in the Oval Office 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z While the Hero’s relationship to evil is relatively straightforward — he’s against it, though occasionally tempted by the corrupting perquisites of power — his relationship with women is ambiguous and almost definitively unfulfilled. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z He has repeatedly called the press “corrupt” and “the enemy of the people.” Perspective | If Trump doesn’t condone violence against journalists, he should stop inspiring it 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The series stars Kevin Spacey as a corrupt congressman trying to scheme his way into the White House. Netflix Signs for a Third Season of ‘House of Cards’ 2014-02-04T22:04:42Z Both are disheartening to read, but clear examples of what happens when leadership fails or is corrupt. 'The Generals': Thomas Ricks on the decline of U.S. Army leadership 2012-11-15T22:24:04Z To call him corrupt is not to say that the rest of the force is clean. Review: ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’ Puts the Noir in Cairo 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Rosen’s backstage descriptions of the show are livelier than his sometimes plodding accounts of how he nailed stories of corrupt politicians and amoral executives. Was ‘60 Minutes’ TV’s Most Toxic Workplace? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Oh sure, there were some people who gamely posted about what a terrific movie it was and now all we had to do was get the corrupt Biden crime family out of office. "My Son Hunter": There's barely even a movie inside this deep-state right-wing grift 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Wahlberg plays Spenser, a former cop who has served five years in jail for trying to expose his corrupt colleagues, only to get released and find they’re still after him. Mark Wahlberg: 'I was a little rough around the edges' 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z But the heart of the story is a love-hate triangle of Lois Lane, Clark Kent/Superman and Maxwell Menken, a corrupt businessman who is jealous at being dethroned as the most powerful man around. Superman Musical Revived in Dallas 2010-07-02T08:18:00Z Harry Cohn, the president of Columbia Pictures, wanted the script changed to suggest that Communists, rather than corrupt unions, were the greater threat to the dock workers; Miller refused. 2010-01-06T08:21:00Z It is a win for working people, fed up with corporate power and corrupt politicians, across the nation. "Knock Down the House" with AOC: New film offers a deeply humanizing portrait of a media obsession 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It pictures the world’s corrupt bulk as the starting point of a miracle that will result in a universe that is tangible but pure. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Which is where we met him at the beginning of the series–trying to be corrupt but not brutishly criminal, to be a bootlegger but work like a legitimate businessman. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Truly, it was the show of our times; a grand fable about social upheaval, corrupt politics, climate change, devastating weaponry — the works. Perspective | I’m signing off as TV critic, but here are six shows I’d happily watch again 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z She delivers a takedown of the sort of person who thinks that Nathanael West is the great Hollywood writer because all he sees is a “shallow, corrupt and ugly” place. Eve Babitz, a Glamour Girl Who Refused to Be Dull 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It not only depicted problems with the aims and methods of policing, but at times placed the blame on fundamentally corrupted systems and initiatives like the war on drugs. A Brief History of the Police Procedural in 6 Shows 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z He dresses old school — white shirt, tie and dark suit — but he has contempt for the old-boy network of fat cats and corrupt city officials who tug law enforcement in their favor. Review: Mulder Meets Manson in NBC’s Compelling ‘Aquarius’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z In “Shades of Blue,” Lopez plays a corrupt New York cop forced into a tricky, unstable situation by Internal Affairs and her own financial straits. NBC finally gets the diversity memo: Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera head 3 very different shows aimed at Latina viewers 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z She calls on her readers to consider if these aesthetics and beauty ideals were, in fact, rooted in African traditions, only to be corrupted and co-opted by white supremacists. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z He spent the 1860s, the final decade of France’s glamorous and corrupt Second Empire, inventing a way of painting that was sly, sensuous, nonchalant, political, ardent and fresh — always fresh. Review | Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Welles also directed himself with more assurance, especially in "Touch of Evil," where he plays a corrupt police captain, and in "Chimes at Midnight," in which he plays Shakespeare's larger-than-life rapscallion Falstaff. 'Magician' conjures up the life of Orson Welles in his own words 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Sorrentino then set about with a seductive, often gorgeously surreal story that stripped a corrupted Catholicism down to an essence of love. Review | ‘The New Pope’ has all of the style but none of the substance that ‘The Young Pope’ had 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The gal, after all, was "corrupted," according to the freakish cavalry. 'The Strain': Anti-vampire forces unite in 'For Services Rendered' 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “A detective learns to distrust the motivations of everyone he’s investigating and tries to find a clear, moral path in a corrupt world, and I think that’s also childhood.” Spare Times for Children for Oct. 19-25 2012-10-18T22:07:08Z Anna Gunn plays an ambitious character trying to get ahead there, but this organization turns out to be just as corrupt as all the rest — uh, some others. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z He also hopes movie-goers will think about the way we live now — what systems do we have in place that might be corrupt? #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Paul Pennyfeather is shaken from his studies at Oxford by the marauding Bollinger Club, and embarks on a vertiginous, queasy journey through the relative innocence of school teaching to the corrupt experience of chrome-covered London. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z He accepts—embraces—his solitude as a moral stance, as a way of staying outside a society that he considers hopelessly corrupt. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The novel’s robustly flavorsome cast of characters includes a semi-deranged land preservationist, a corrupt Nobel Prize winner, a Chilean Ayn Rand disciple and several wonderful dogs. Review | Escapist reads: New and upcoming mysteries and thrillers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z A bristling, funny, savage novel that homes in on the conflicted lives of three ultra-wealthy Manhattan wives and the corrupt man on whom they take vengeance. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z There are also voluntary celibates, or “volcels”, and Men Going Their Own Way, or “MGTOW”, who have resolved to distance themselves from women, who they view as debased and morally corrupt. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Colin Farrell as Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him. 'True Detective' Confirms 3 More Cast Members 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z When Elaine emerges as the new hot property in a thoroughly corrupt scene of scheming, lying, cheating and double-dealing on every level, the naïve Dewey is sacrificed to the wolves. | 'Boogie Woogie': ?Boogie Woogie? With Alan Cumming and Gillian Anderson 2010-04-22T23:32:00Z That said, its vision of a greedy, corrupt elite caused a stir in Brazil. New York Film Festival: Determined Women and Uncertainty in the World 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Bringing back McKean's Chuck reminds us of why Jimmy's soul became corrupt in the first place. S'all done: "Better Call Saul" closes with a journey through time and regret 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Martin dismisses the notion that influential economists were corrupted by close relations with banks and highly paid consultancies – the argument of Charles Ferguson's powerful documentary, Inside Job. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z “Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash,” a Norwegian animated feature, pits a peppy little auto against corrupt corporate bigwigs stealing the water supply. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 1-7 2013-01-31T23:19:57Z This 1836 work — in which a witless fop is assumed to be a powerful state functionary by corrupt politicians in the provinces — infuses scathing satire with giddy surrealism. A Giddy ‘Government Inspector,’ Restaged by the Red Bull Theater 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z In Khomeinist interpretations, Islam was a levelling creed that scorned monarchy and the west's "corrupting" influence alike. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z She married him, and he soon became a drunken, corrupt Baltimore cop who beat her. Review | Laura Lippman’s ‘Sunburn’ is classic noir, with no shortage of sex and violence 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The opposite scenario, where interesting words or music become corrupted in the mix, is perhaps equally recognisable to readers. You can't pick the lyrics out of pop 2010-12-09T12:07:00Z The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's true-life tale of corrupt New York stockbrokers, was the most illegally downloaded movie of 2014. Wolf 'most pirated film of 2014' 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z This is Colbert, king of late night, unsparing master of punching upward at our corrupt and dangerous leaders with jokes, and he’s being serious. As the world burns, existential TV reflects viewers' needs to make sense of life 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s a corrupt world that makes the Medici Renaissance court look rather innocent. ‘The Country of Ice Cream Star,’ by Sandra Newman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z There are corrupt Irish policemen, Italian-American hoodlums with Tommy guns, and showdowns in the shadowy corridors of fancy hotels. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z There were myriad adventures and dangers along the way, from jihadist roadblocks to bandits to corrupt Malian soldiers. Meet ‘The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z What you did see, instead, on many of the Sunday shows, were Trump’s TV ads, where his false “Biden is corrupt and so is the news media” message could go unchallenged. Perspective | As interviews get tougher, Team Trump doubles down on avoidance 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z But in the pressure-cooker decade before Germany’s complacent bourgeoisie and corrupt rulers facilitated Europe’s plunge into World War I, the Expressionists helped modernize the idea of the artist as obstreperous rebel and sardonic social commentator. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z No rental car and GPS for him: “There was something that to me felt corrupt and dishonest about having an air-conditioned experience of the protagonist’s ordeals,” he said. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Let’s assume the corrupted Starfleet ship wants to frame the Titan for Ro’s death. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z "It still was the Soviet Union before and still lots of political pressure and communism was around. It was very corrupt. I didn’t like that." Ukrainian American recalls son's 'scary' phone call during Russia invasion: 'Mom, they started bombing' 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z A hatchet-faced Brummie in a flat cap violently carving out a piece of the bootlegging action in one of the most corrupt cities in the world? Peaky Blinders take Chicago! Which British shows deserve a US spin-off? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The whole idea of lifestyle has corrupted everything. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z She finds the link between them in the way money corrupts Timon’s understanding of human relations, turning generosity into a kind of usury, extorting the interest of the idle well-born. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z They generated a moral panic and were held responsible for inspiring real acts of violence as juveniles exposed to such "trash" were thought to be morally corrupted. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The main characters in aren't the overburdened cops, spiralling addicts, ruthless dealers, struggling dockworkers, corrupt politicians or compromised journalists of The Wire. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z There is no ‘human right’ to corrupt our children.” Civilities: Why Houston’s repeal of the ‘bathroom bill’ isn’t surprising 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z In the late 19th century, as the publishing industry cranked out a vast new selection of popular fiction to toss in the suitcase, Americans were being warned away from the corrupting influence of summer reading. Perspective | Summer reading has a fraught history. But if there was ever a time to delight in escapism, it’s now. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z For a while, the Kungs reigned as one of the richest and allegedly most corrupt families in the country. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Curator Tom Wareham said he wanted to highlight the degree to which corrupt lawmakers, conniving noblemen, and greedy London merchants all played their part in funding, outfitting and organizing pirate expeditions. Was Captain Kidd set up? New exhibit airs doubts 2011-05-19T16:46:11Z United Russia, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy, has become known as the party of crooks and thieves, a phrase coined by Navalny. Gorbachev to Putin: Leave power peacefully 2011-12-24T17:27:00Z “Nothing to see here” was the clear message — nothing but the corrupt investigation itself. Perspective | Mueller’s report proves why Trump loves Fox News — and why he needs it now more than ever 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z A young couple move to the suburbs and become friends with their neighbours, who emerge as a pair of corrupt swingers. 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “Initially, I just thought I was going to do a couple of episodes,” says Isiah Whitlock Jr, whose corrupt senator, Clay Davis, barely appeared in the first two seasons. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Heard also starred in movies including After Hours and received an Emmy award for a guest role in the HBO series The Sopranos, as Vin Makazian, a corrupt New Jersey detective. John Heard, star of Home Alone and The Sopranos, dies at 72 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet their themes and plotlines — featuring corrupt police officers who take their cut from drug dealers’ profits, and institutionalized racism that pays only lip service to equal opportunity — remain distressingly relevant. These Radical Black Thrillers Fantasized About Dismantling the Police 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The word “impeachment” comes from the antebellum Georgia practice of pelting corrupt politicians with rotten fruit. Style Invitational Week 1442: Same difference 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z As Diane's relationships with her anorexic Greenpeace daughter Phoebe and her tweedily corrupt professor deteriorate, her scepticism turns to hectoring. Take climate scientists to task, but avoid formulaic boffin-bashing 2011-02-11T18:19:34Z On one side are those who believe the board is too lax, allowing a tide of filth on our screens, corrupting the nation's morals. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z But “Mecca” throbs with a despairing awareness of the South Africa of the 1970s as a broken and corrupting nation, a spiritual prison for those who inhabit it. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z Edged with suffering and humor, "Calvary" follows Father James, a widower and recovering alcoholic whose parishioners have been betrayed by the Roman Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals and Ireland's corrupt economy. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Sign you’re a really corrupt plutocrat: ...and you swipe Sweet n’ Low packets from restaurants. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Later we'd see how Big Timber had worked its way into and corrupted Oregon's legislature, its agencies, communities and schools, but back then, we were innocent. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z It shows how our past shapes our present and charts the corrupting power of wealth and privilege. Patrick Melrose - Cumberbatch finds privilege corrupts 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z It suggests that no real artist can actually function within a corrupt system, so the only authentic choice is to defy everything in service of the work. Blaze Foley’s Inevitable Sorrow and Spiritual Success 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And Trump — who called journalists scum and corrupt — alienated us so much that we couldn’t see what was before our eyes. The media didn’t want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It took me many years to begin to recognize these advantages as unearned, the product of corrupt systems stacked in my favor. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The mission is to bring down Lincoln Red Crow, a corrupt casino owner. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Life on the Reservation 2011-03-11T17:30:28Z Instead, he sees his detention as a mere link in a chain of previous internments dating back to the British occupation of Kenya and continuing under the corrupt post-independence regime. A Kenyan Writer and Dissident on His Year in Prison 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It was in the '70s that you were against power because it was corrupt and f---ed up. "Other Guys" director Adam McKay opens up on Ferrell, comedy 2010-07-28T06:02:00Z The story is couched in neo-Western terms -- a solitary gunman comes to a town and confronts the corrupt sheriff and his maniacal deputies -- so the movie fits comfortably within the confines of mainstream studio moviemaking. 2010-01-11T02:48:00Z For many, March Madness is the ultimate return and escape: a return to a simpler, purer time; an escape from the crass concerns of corrupt professional sports. March Madness and the NCAA purity lie: How the billion-dollar basketball-industrial complex blinds us to our biggest flaws 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Shea Whitman does fine by the corrupt lawyer’s role, a California slime bag who goes from top dog to dead dog in about a minute flat. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z The whole collection evokes the about-to-be-upended universe of a pious, poor village girl — a village girl you desperately want to corrupt, like Apollonia from “The Godfather.” T Magazine: Giulietta of the Spirits 2011-01-27T22:15:04Z Brutal dictatorships, extreme poverty, rampant crime, and unforgivingly corrupt governments are also driving them from their homes. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z There is a concession to modern sentiment, though, when the final verses revert to the familiar and undeniably beautiful, if musicologically corrupt, version. The Sixteen – review 2013-04-08T16:23:27Z Unlike the many who are corrupted by power and privilege, Azdak, for all his determination, fails to vanquish the little sprig of goodness still blooming in his gleefully rotted soul. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z That understated yet pointed view of life certainly captures the spirit of “As You Like It,” the bittersweet comedy in which everyone flees a corrupt court and scampers to the healing forest of Arden. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Hogarth portrays all aristocrats as decadent, all politicians as corrupt, all capitalists as money-grubbing and all doctors as quacks. Hogarth and Scarfe offend humanity … and that is why they are great 2013-01-30T14:19:02Z In fact, Maya's politics, other than her Sri Lankan ones, which are more informed, remind me of Banksy's: essentially, people with power are all corrupt and they conspire to keep the innocents down. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z There may not have been anything as much fun at the movies this year as watching Michael Shannon as a corrupt, comically reckless cop disgusted by his ignoble two-wheeled prey. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z There's almost no conversation more relevant right now than the power of Big Pharma, inaccessible life-saving health care, or corrupt, two-faced politicians. The shock twist in “Sweet Girl” subverts the typical masculine revenge thriller — with a catch 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Greene claims Koskoff, who wears a toupée throughout the movie and is one of the executives at the corrupt brokerage firm founded by Jordan Belfort, was based on him. Leonardo DiCaprio Will Testify in Wolf of Wall Street Lawsuit 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z He sought the genuine in, as Kirstein put it, “an epoch so crass and so corrupt that the only purity of the ordinary individual is unconscious.” Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z All of this squeezes public budgets, corrupts government, and undermines our democracy. America’s vanishing middle class 2012-08-31T19:34:00Z “The In-Between World of Vikram Lall,” by M. G. Vassanji, in which a corrupt official now in hiding in Canada looks back on his life and the independence movement in Kenya. The Nobel-Winning Economist Who Wants You to Read More Fiction 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Rather, the problem is that several corrupt FBI agents have turned to murder and are trying to kill honest agents who oppose them. Review | This political thriller imagines the unimaginable: a silent Trump 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z This is not the first of your books to feature a corrupt, disgraced or criminal judge. John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z What’s less well known is the religious backstory — that supporters of the Protestant reformation, including Cromwell, longed to throw off the chains of a rich, powerful and corrupt Catholic bureaucracy. PBS adaptation of ‘Wolf Hall’ fit for a king 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Here are these two brilliant, headstrong guys from opposite sides of the political spectrum, who appeared to be very idealistic, driven by ideology, but who allowed themselves to become corrupted. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z He does — but then his puritans turn on the corrupt ruling class, including Cersei. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps the house is Eden, corrupted by man. Michelle Pfeiffer on the Meaning of mother! and 'Unfiltered' Jennifer Lawrence 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It corrupts the agenda, the issues that get the focus and attention, and moves Congress away from the needs and concerns of the voters. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z James Ellroy continues his examination of the corrupt and powerful with ‘This Storm’ Review | James Ellroy’s new novel is an unabashedly retro tale of Hollywood’s sordid side 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z “But on the other hand I’m never going to say all police are corrupt, that all police hate people of color. I’m not going to say that. I mean, we need police.” The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr Allen argues that colonisers saddled Africa with corrupt governments that hindered growth. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Members of US government agencies are meanwhile portrayed as indecisive and corrupt. Wang Jianlin: does China's richest man have a plan to take over Hollywood? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z After taking over, Mason soon faced Grammy backlash from The Weeknd who angrily slammed the awards, calling them “corrupt” after the pop star received zero nominations despite having last year’s biggest single, “Blinding Lights.” Grammys CEO on a mission to regain music community’s trust 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Jha’s point is that the system absorbs and corrupts outsiders as easily as it mouths banalities about poverty. | 'Raajneeti': Prakash Jha?s ?Godfather,? Bhopal Version 2010-06-03T21:19:00Z It unfolds through Mr. Murfi’s narration, as he takes on the personas of a priest, a corrupt local politician and a policeman. A ‘Swan Lake’ About Ireland, Where Myth Meets the Mundane 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Only Nora is courageous enough to accept the terrible consequence of her newly awakened knowledge of good and evil – exclusion from a corrupt society: she becomes fully human. A Doll's House – review 2013-05-11T23:04:06Z Vittoria is as warned: rude, bitter, larger than life, an immature woman with weak boundaries who is eager to corrupt her niece and win her allegiance. Elena Ferrante Returns With ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes revolutionaries wear the white hats as they struggle to overthrow a corrupt South Vietnamese regime and rid their nation of American invaders bent on controlling its destiny. The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The novel’s robustly flavorsome cast includes a semi-deranged land preservationist, a corrupt Nobel Prize winner, a Chilean Ayn Rand disciple and several wonderful dogs. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z By the 1930s, Shanghai was the fifth-largest city in the world — and, to hear some tell it, a corrupt and drug-addled place like no other. From Rags to Ill-Gotten Riches in 1930s China 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But its corrupted form in later life can destroy nerve cells. Intermittent fasting could help protect the brain from age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z But how much responsibility do Africans — particularly the corrupt warlords that you show in the film — have for their own fate? ‘We come as friends’: The world’s most consequential lie 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z She obtains files from within the corrupt New York Police Department and agrees to act as a liaison between Kreizler and her boss. Review | Long past its bestseller heyday, ‘The Alienist’ arrives late to a 19th-century crime spree 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Few works of literature have attracted as much intense textual scrutiny as “Ulysses”—Joyce is in a class with Homer and Dante—but the text itself is hopelessly corrupt. Why We Are No Longer Shocked by “Ulysses” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Think of Daumier's 19th-century caricatures ridiculing a corrupt and incompetent government, or Goya's war scenes, and of course, there's Picasso's "Guernica." Review: Artists illustrate war, politics and more in Seattle group show 2011-04-28T20:14:19Z Or: “Many of us hold out the hope that there is a utopia in our future run by women, that power does not in fact corrupt equally.” Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z It’s well known, of course, that Trump increasingly is campaigning against what he calls “the corrupt media,” slamming news organizations for “false stories, all made up . . . lies, lies.” Trump doesn’t hate all media. He just has terrible taste. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Believing that he was treated unfairly, Li was also disillusioned by the corrupted court, where the suffering of common people was rarely acknowledged. Ha Jin’s Self-Revealing Study of The Chinese Poet Li Bai 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z More important for such people is whether you trust American and other Western institutions, or regard them as inherently corrupt and oppressive. How Edward Snowden changed history 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Three years ago, for instance, the play “Enron,” which portrays Americans as greedy, corrupt, corporate vipers, closed on Broadway after only two weeks. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Mountaintop,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2013-04-27T01:27:27Z Notable at least in part for its fumbled potential, this health-care-industry melodrama possesses all the right ingredients: an idealistic young lawyer, a corrupt corporate villain and a sympathetic victim. | 'Puncture': ?Pucture? Stars Chris Evans and Mark Kassen ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z The dialogue somehow sounds believable even at its most deadpan hilarious, and the multi-pronged satire — of Florida, corrupt cops, bumbling criminals and, most exquisitely, the entertainment industry — is gentle but merciless. Carl Hiaasen’s raucous new novel, ‘Razor Girl’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Lark, accessible by ship only twice a year from the mainland, is a closed patriarchal society mired in religion, paganism, suspicion, superstition and corrupt do-goodery which has suspended it in a sort of unenlightened rigor. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Instead, the documentary closely examines the means by which the New York financier corrupted and successfully circumvented the justice system for most of his life. It's time for Ghislaine Maxwell's reckoning in the "Surviving Jeffrey Epstein" docuseries 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Followers thus don’t require specific orders, but gather a sense of validation and righteousness in carrying out a violent campaign of societal purification against people designated as corrupting influences. Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z But as Mr. Martínez makes graphically clear, the whole system has become markedly more brutal, corrupt and dangerous: These days it’s “everyone against everyone, migrants caught in the middle.” Books of The Times: ‘The Beast’ by Óscar Martínez Details Immigrant Trek 2013-12-17T21:43:42Z While the relationship between Black people and land was corrupted by slavery, Mr. Ross is among a growing group that is reclaiming American land and working to transform agriculture. One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z “If he’s good, he suspects nothing of my piñata. If he’s corrupt, he immediately assumes that what I’ve done is mocking.” The Man Behind the Trump Piñata 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z That year, Denzel Washington won for playing a corrupt cop in “Training Day.” Maybe Hollywood’s not racist — it just has a processing disorder 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The historical forces that corrupt the world have changed with time. Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He suggests it may be a “failed nation,” in a state of “moral decomposition; a hating and hateful place” and “a kind of corrupted Eden.” Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z Her enemies also wanted her out, so that the country’s Vice-President, a wily, corrupt politician who had joined Dilma’s government in a coalition deal, could take over. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z While some support the heavy hand of the "party police", seeing its work as protecting Indian culture from corrupting western influence, its alleged clubbers have been assaulted. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z Did you know that power corrupts, and absolute power blah blah blah? Katniss meets the new boss: The Tea Party, the Bolsheviks and the “Hunger Games” finale 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “FANTASTICALLY corrupt” said David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, talking about Nigeria with the Queen on May 10th. No fantasy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But if the first film was an old-fashioned, rite-of-passage story about a young man, Bud Fox, corrupted by greed, is there a take-home message from Wall Street 2? Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z The halls are full of corrupt officers, there is a rampant drugs trade, riots are a regular occurrence and prisoners torture and murder with impunity. Women's TV prison dramas: 10 vital ingredients 2013-07-10T12:04:00Z “Mostly the people who come here are people who have already been to Thailand before and are looking for something different and/or some place not corrupted by tourism, and Isan is both,” he said. Thailand’s ‘Gong Highway’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It is Marley — corrupt, murderous and ultimately diseased Marley — who becomes human, kind and loving. Taking Dickens to the Dark Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The biblical Flood emphasizes the unique role humans played in corrupting the earth. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z There’s also Manning, a corrupt cop; tales about his biker group, the Road Vultures Motorcycle Club; and one-offs like a wacky story about a murderous refrigerator. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Michael Chiklis gives an incredible performance, turning this thoroughly corrupt cop into one of the most memorable TV characters of all time. Box Set Club: The Shield 2011-08-23T11:40:27Z "Zulu'"s explcit, and, at times even gratuitous, depiction of violence and inter-human relations, paints a highly cynical picture of post-colonial Cape Town, one in which authorities are corrupt and vigilante justice is king. `Zulu,' violent portrait of S. Africa, ends Cannes 2013-05-26T17:15:13Z “There’s a possibility that it really corrupts her,” he said of Abigail. The Power Player of ‘Triangle of Sadness’: Dolly de Leon 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z “Everything about him promised pleasure; everything about him betrayed his desire — an aggressive, corrupting desire.” ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z With his corrupt cop thriller Line of Duty getting more fiendishly gripping with each passing series, writer Jed Mercurio’s stock is sky-high. The 10 best new TV dramas coming this autumn 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z And that kind of restraint makes it all the more tempting to create fictional versions who are as corrupt and conniving in public office as their male counterparts. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z They’re “not corrupted,” he said, “or, if corrupted is too strong a word, not changed in the way that the forces of the TV industry tend to change writers.” Gillian Flynn Takes Her Paranoia to Television 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Even the characters' bodies begin to feel the effects of the corrupting world around them. "Cosmopolis" brings star Pattinson to Cannes 2012-05-25T11:49:47Z It’s about fighting the power, and about the fact that power corrupts everyone it touches. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z “We are tech-savvy and have no ties to the corrupt Soviet past.” My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The images of corrupted power are too generalised, which makes the rebellion look like so much posturing. Mutatis Mutandis 2010-08-02T21:16:00Z His grotesque, stage-hijacking Engineer came across as the flaming, smoking soul of corrupt capitalism, rather in the mold of another uneasy but immortal cultural stereotype, Charles Dickens’s Fagin. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Then, of course, the good church girl gets corrupted ending the show doing a duet with Juicy J. Like they say, art imitates life. 'Empire' season finale recap: life, death and a Cookie fight 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z I let down our system of government and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but will think it is all too corrupt and the rest. David Frost’s Most Memorable Interviews 2013-09-02T02:01:39Z Unless we are spectacularly dim, it's a holiday after which we can return to our everyday selves, not corrupted, but refreshed and amused. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z The new season introduces a corrupt, fact-averse lawyer played by Michael Sheen. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Good Fight’ and ‘Shoplifters’ 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But there was strength in their numbers — as Tammany Hall, the corrupt faction of politicians who controlled Manhattan’s Democratic Party for 150 years, discovered. A Tourist’s Guide to Catholic New York 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z |
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