| 单词 | dictator |
| 例句 | Banda may have been a cruel dictator, but he did care deeply for farmers and the land. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Unlike European monarchs and dictators, an unpopular U.S. leader could be removed by the voters at the ballot box, making assassination unnecessary. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But I’m not sure anymore after what Lucinda told me about us having a dictator who makes everybody hang his picture on their walls. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Rather, the shrewd and ruthless dictator immediately grasped the implications of such a powerful weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was turning out to be quite a little dictator. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Germany was our close neighbor, and I remember the adults talking about the oppression of Germany’s Jews. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, was making life miserable for them.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “The ends justifying the means is something a ruthless dictator might say, not a philosopher.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I was not speaking the tongue spoken by those who rule men, the kings, conquerors, dictators, generals; in that language there was no answer to his question. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I read the papers. Ronald Reagan is keeping us safe from the socialistic dictators, and you should be grateful for it.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "He aims to control the movement uptown. He wants to be a dictator!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was a police state ruthlessly run by Joseph Stalin, a dictator who arrested and executed his political rivals, just like Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the dictator’s wife hadn’t written a word of it, but the audience clapped politely. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This dictator was the heavy boot on our skinny necks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The latter by this time had already had an eventful career: a Macedonian-leaning social conservative, he was already a prolific author when Cassander, the strongman in Pella, installed him as dictator of Athens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Until the emergence of Napoleon as dictator, the French government, eventually called the Directory, was a misnamed coalition of ever-shifting political factions inherently incapable of either coherence or direction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When it came to the garden, I was a dictator. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was a large, open room with desks and metal shutters on the windows and a portrait of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin gazing down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His house was opened and the public was invited to visit what they called “the dictator’s palace.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a big task pressing in on us, a big responsibility: to shoulder some power, to uproot the dictator’s thugs, to be effective and thorough with-out becoming vengeful. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of the presidents, dictators, and generals had brought his own protectors, and of course the Alacrans had hired a small army for the party. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who did know about it often thought of it as “the Nazi code,” something that applied to barbarians and dictators, not to American doctors. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There were senators and famous actors, generals and world-renowned doctors, a few ex-presidents, and half a dozen dictators from places Matt had heard about on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The dictator, a.k.a. my mom, bought my outfit. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z But when the dictator and his fancy wife left, everything broke. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "You remember Saddam Hussein, the old Iraqi dictator?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It would hardly have been seemly for someone who had challenged our dictator to suddenly succumb to a nervous attack at the communion rail. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a broadcast of a speech by this man Fidel, who is trying to overturn their dictator over in Cuba. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Guareschi’s long ambition had been to become dictator of a small country. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When we had them regularly, as if to prove we could kill each other even without a dictator to tell us to. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You are a father, a dictator, a servant, the most agile actor this land has ever known. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I could dare to believe that even a dictator of a small country might have a moment of unintended kindness. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “You want to be a...dictator? You want to control everyone in the world?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We have to do that. Everyone has to. He’s a dictator.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He had not been much help to the dictator in that regard, since he and Dona Belen had never had any children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just after you were kidnapped and taken to the Dominican Republic that the dictator Jean- Claude Duvalier was finally persuaded to leave our Haiti. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that maybe Titid’s sermons had something to do with the dictator finally leaving. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was breathing heavily, since principals and dictators of small countries aren’t used to running. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “I was a poor boy from a poor village,” El Patron began, addressing the assembled presidents, dictators, generals, and other famous people. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That must have got Mami thinking about Papi because she started talking about the old days and how Papi and my uncles became involved in the underground movement against the dictator. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The country’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, had broken international treaties and built up his military force. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Dictatorships,” he was saying, “are pantheistic. The dictator manages to plant a little piece of himself in every one of us.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The comfortable bungalow was just blocks from the dictator’s huge wedding cake palace that the mobs had long ago burned down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually he turned his apartment into a chapel, began giving lectures on medical miracles, and told reporters he dreamed of moving to South America and becoming a dictator. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My granddaughter Alba, however, saw the true nature of the dictator long before I did. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “A few months ago, he and his friends were involved in a plot to get rid of our dictator.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But tonight, as we've agreed, we're staging a coup on the same Avenida where a decade ago the dictator was cornered and wounded on his way to a tryst with his mistress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Stalin, who led the Soviet Union until 1953, was a cruel dictator who ruled by terror. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I mean, it’s not like we’ve got some dictator guy telling everybody they have to, I don’t know, like, wear polyester all the time or something grotesque like that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The reports that label my family as corrupt, power- hungry, moralizing dictators? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our world opened up because a long-time dictator was thrown out of Haiti. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I must have sensed the timing was right, for my grandparents had just returned from their trip, and the dictator's raids would begin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Juan Perón, who later became Evita’s husband and the dictator of Argentina, studied Hitler and his Italian sidekick, Mussolini, as role models. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Maybe if a policeman happens by, my whole family will be deported home, where we’ll all be killed by the dictator’s son? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “You mean you’re getting out on that balcony in front of fifty thousand crazy crackpots and try to talk sense to them—on a balcony like a medieval dictator?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It named him dictator for life even though the role of dictator had until then been reserved only for emergencies and only for a limited term. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The once respected and honored Taliban became what they were fighting against, the oppressive warlords and dictators that had preceded them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Under the dictators they had all gone to ruin, and now there were fewer than a thousand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I may be an advocate for free speech and human rights in public, but with my brother, I admit, I can be a dictator! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “At this rate," he concluded, “you'll not only be the most despotic and bloody dictator in our history, but you'll shoot my dear friend Úrsula in an attempt to pacify your conscience." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z On another occasion they were taken to examine the bloodied bedroom curtains hanging in the palace of the former dictator. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She would have realized her father had lost brothers and friends to the dictator Trujillo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Like all too many dictators, Cahokia’s rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Flanked by a contingent of black shirts, Agent Jones waited to greet the dictator. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And the weekend after that: “All hail Aven Laura Green, future world dictator of the Desert Ridge Middle School soccer team!” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The law helped transform the country into a police state; no dictator could covet more power than the Ninety-Day Detention Law gave to the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fascism, which we associate so strongly with the Nazi Party, is a form of government rooted in nationalism, in which democracy gives way to a dictator. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Anyone who angered or disappointed the Soviet dictator could wind up in a Siberian prison camp—or with a bullet in the brain. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, our dictator was running a free country. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, Malawi was under the control of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a powerful dictator who ruled the country for more than thirty years. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren’t happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly insignificant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Sorry, ladies, your favorite North Korean dictator is off the market,” teased a headline on MSN Now. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And then a couple of more voices added their good wishes to our dictator, until what had been a scared compliance became, by the exaggeration of repetition, a joke. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1959, a rebel force led by Fidel Castro had overthrown the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, an authoritarian leader supported by the United States and by the many American companies doing business on the island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He sur-vived going against the wishes of despots and dictators in some of the most dangerous and war-torn jungles in the world. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “We need a radio dictator, just as the movies, baseball have.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Since “independence” the Venda people have been under the clutches of the Pretoria- anointed dictator, Patrick Mphephu, who, despite the loss of two elections, continues clinging to power through untempered repression and brutality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Since this part of our property adjoined the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law, my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high wall lest it be considered a snub. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Tía Mimi's hedge of bright red ginger shielded us somewhat from the sight of the eyesore palace and of the dictator strolling of a Sunday afternoon with his three-year-old grandson in a minuscule general's uniform. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mundín says that our uncle has been feeling bad that he got out just in time, leaving my father and Tío Toni and others to bear the brunt of the dictator’s son’s wrath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A rogue dictator was threatening the stability of the region. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z No one saw Mr. Guareschi leave, still looking for a small country to be dictator of. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But as thirteen-and fifteen-year-old girls, with no mother and father to watch over us, our bodies were like poor countries—there was always a dictator trying to rule over us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Invective—as he demonstrated by dissing the dictator in his first big case—was a Ciceronian specialty. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z First, we mean to depose the dictator in this and this way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He committed the United States to vanquishing the dictators who would deprive others of their freedom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But up till a week ago, the dictator’s family was in control and nothing but essential correspondence was being allowed out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I’m not really sure what a dictator does. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z One of their primary adversaries is Szass Tam, the leader of the Red Wizards, who rules as a dictator of the nation of Thay. A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In Serbia a small group of laughtivists sought to use humor to bring down a dictator; in America we already have a full-blown satire rebellion. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Rogen and Goldberg encouraged Park to humanize the dictator, highlighting, for example, his struggle with the weight of his father's expectations. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke Bergoglio’s own statements proved church officials knew from early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens even as the church publicly endorsed the dictators, she said. Papal election stirs memories of Argentina’s “Dirty War” 2013-03-14T15:33:00Z Doesn’t this suggest he was as much a dictator as a director? Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z And there are, of course, elements that different politicians are trying from dictators in order to control population. Belarusian political dissidents on spreading their message of freedom: ‘We never know when our life will end’ 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z There are parts of the show that even a North Korean dictator would find excessively flattering. Review: 'Motown' musical big on songs, light story 2013-04-15T02:16:04Z Or that of all the oppressive dictators in the world and throughout history, the first movie that assassinates a living dictator happens to the North Korean one? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Or more specifically, he doesn't appreciate someone offhandedly comparing being a movie star on a big budget action picture to the suffering millions of individuals endured under a Nazi dictator. The new high price of mouthing off 2011-06-21T20:11:00Z "These are two very different screenplays built on a familiar theme: mercenaries taking on a Latin American dictator." Stallone did not copy screenplay for "The Expendables": judge 2012-12-28T00:10:17Z “I get gifts all the time,” she said in August in The Hague at the war crimes tribunal of the former Liberian dictator Charles G. Taylor. The Gimlet Eye: Naomi Campbell: Model, Citizen 2010-09-09T04:10:00Z Described as "the first modern dictator" and "one of the first modern leaders to rule by propaganda," Bonaparte went from being France's first elected president to its last emperor. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z In a waterlogged brave new Seoul of 2146, a sub-class is being cloned to provide servants for the local dictators, as well as more sinister services. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z But the Covid pandemic has done even more than dictators to push avant-garde theater off the map. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z She went to South Korea and met the president; another photo in that series saw her slipping off to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Perspective | Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Hilariously henpecked by his wife—their constant squabbles are the inverse of Carlos and the Queen’s camp romance—the dictator is almost entirely passive, an old man losing his grip on power. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z “Trump’s praise for dictators is also very telling,” Meyers said, “because that’s all Trump cares about: power. And judging from his skin, he’s almost full — it’s time to unplug him.” If a Donald Trump joke lands on late-night TV, does anyone (who matters) hear it? 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The Chinese dictators will not willingly relinquish total control of reproduction. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z Or was he a power-hungry dictator whose wars left more than 3 million people dead? French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z He said he believed that “supporters of a criminal war waged by a dictator and a mass murderer should have no place on the concert stages of the civilized world.” Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z It wasn't about the removal of a decrepit dictator, it was about the rebirth of Egypt. Egypt has returned from the cultural backwaters 2011-02-24T16:19:39Z Is there another developed nation that has a standing monument to a dictator, built by the forced labor of the defeated? Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z Gather all the trades and talents that he displayed onscreen, and you end up with the most curious of amalgams: prince, priest, bank clerk, shrink, dictator, Jedi, vacuum-cleaner salesman, thinker, sailor, soldier, spy. Anthony Lane: Celebrating Alec Guinness’s Centenary, at Film Forum 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z He said "most people at the Fringe get the joke of me being dressed up as a washed up dictator trying to sell the show." British comedian dressed as Gadhafi attacked 2011-08-21T17:01:04Z “He always seemed to want dictators to respect him,” Grisham writes, pointing in particular to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom staff suspected of arranging for an attractive interpreter and coughing to throw Trump off-guard. Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z "Every African country is governed by a dictator mentality," he says. Seun Kuti: The sun always shines 2011-04-07T20:49:00Z Think of dictators, think of nationalism—love for an idealized version of your people, your community, or what you imagine is your community, belonging. Mary Gaitskill on the Relationship Between Love and Torture 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Justice is served, a dictator falls and the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” plays in the background. The one way Oliver Stone actually beat the strongman in “The Putin Interviews” 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Even independence, since colonial forces handed power to local dictators, was not independence. After Tunisia: Mourid Barghouti on Palestine 2011-01-28T13:00:02Z More uprisings and repressions follow, then another dictator, this one backed by an army. Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z Members of the dictator’s inner circle are machine gunned after he fakes his own death. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “Trump loved to order cabinet secretaries, staff, or whoever else was sitting near him to give this dictator or that whatever it was he wanted,” she writes. Takeaways from Trump aide’s account of chaotic White House 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z She was drawn to Julius Caesar because of its material: the fall of a dictator, the swaying views of the populace, war, regime change. Can an all-women Julius Caesar work? 2012-11-19T19:18:27Z Chad’s former dictator, he was the first former head of state to be convicted of crimes against humanity by an African court after his government was accused of killing 40,000 people. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The film follows the rise to power of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, with him abandoning his wife and child along the way. Film critics group: `Social Network' is 2010 pick 2011-01-09T00:49:08Z That would be terrifying if you were a dictator and you said, “There’s no one I hate more than such and such,” an 11-year-old in Lincoln, Neb. Talk: Daniel Handler Has Not Abandoned Lemony Snicket 2012-11-25T04:07:02Z “The British thought Washington was going to become a dictator, he was going to become a king.” Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Those were the heady days when the term "maestro" conferred dictator status, when the likes of George Szell and Arturo Toscanini reigned. Classical musicians and the terror of the audition 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The prisoner attacks and strangles the dictator who then gloats: "I told you, you're a monster, just like me." Syrian satirists take puppet show into war-torn towns to mock Assad regime 2013-06-22T14:47:32Z And when have you ever seen a woman play a dictator?” Kit Harington feared "Game of Thrones" season 8 would be accused of sexism, and he was right 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z But his latest, which won best animated short at the Muestra Joven festival in 2016, is an Orwellian tale about a screaming dictator lording over identically dressed workers from drab, identical apartments. Improvisation Is the Heart of Cuban Animation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z If there is a Siodmak touch, it is the sinister dance that the sarong-wrapped dictator of Cobra Island performs for her ecstatic subjects, who greet her writhing with an unmistakable version of the Nazi salute. Robert Siodmak Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-07-06T16:10:56Z The world is more troubled now than during the battles between dictators of the 1930s and 1940s? Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z Kujo captures that with with flashbacks to the colonial era buildings and forts that punctuate Haiti's countryside as well as the more recent memories of dictators and earthquakes. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The Algerian title "Normale" examines what happened in the Algerian street as neighboring countries' dictators were being toppled. Arab films showcase turbulent, redemptive year 2011-10-24T15:37:51Z To the mannequin’s left sits a bronze desk lamp, which, according to the curators, sat in a villa belonging to the former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Take a good, hard look at the region and it’s obvious that Washington mainly supports the interests of Israel, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s military dictator, and various Gulf State autocracies. Worth dying for? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z In any word-association game, you will invariably find that the words "Tom Cruise" are followed by "Xenu, dictator of the Galactic Confederacy." Two men. One dream 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z Why is it so important to us that dictators have no taste? Gaddafi, the great-taste dictator of interior design 2011-08-25T17:03:47Z Accused by the Bush administration of being in league with Saddam Hussein, Mr. Zarqawi would use the Americans’ toppling of the dictator to empower himself. Review: ‘Black Flags,’ Tracing the Birth of ISIS 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Trump channels his inner dictator in a tirade against the federal judge who blocked his Muslim ban. Late night hosts on the evolution of Trump: 'Dickish to dictatorish' 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Directed by and starring Stallone, the action romp about mercenaries aiming to overthrow a dictator raised its total to $64.9 million. Stallone's 'Expendables' retains crown with $16.5M 2010-08-22T17:13:00Z 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 I think the way Trump acts around dictators comes from his feelings of a sort of inferiority: he’d like to be like them, but he can’t. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “The dictator was like a god. He was untouchable, you couldn’t talk about him,” said Alzakout. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z One of his earliest segments that landed with the audience drew parallels between Trump and a series of famous African dictators. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Imanuel was born in 1999, a year after the fall of Suharto, the dictator who presided over Indonesia for three decades. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “Part of the film community very much flirts with a dictator and a country and says it’s cute to travel, have a daiquiri and ignore what’s going on just 50 yards outside the Hotel Nacional.” Leon Ichaso, Whose Films Explored Latino Identity, Dies at 74 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z It is against this historical backdrop of collaboration that Trump’s association with various dictators should be analyzed. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Mr Guha dismisses Park Chung-hee, who began South Korea’s economic miracle, as a modernising dictator in the style of Mr Lee. No unity in diversity 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Some spoke to dictators and battles and they should be removed. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z “I was trying to think of how I would describe it, in design terminology. And I’ve come up with ‘dictator chic.’ The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The image of the dictator appears to be going through something of a rehabilitation in Russia though. Russian politicians fail to see funny side of 'Death of Stalin' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z There was one last kink in the telephone cord that tied Bulgakov to Stalin: before concluding that momentous phonecall, the dictator suggested that they meet for a tête-a-tête. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Mongolia is to transform a museum once dedicated to the Soviet dictator into a centre for its wealth of fossils, including a 70m-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar specimen. It's goodbye Lenin, hello dinosaur as fossils head to Mongolia museum 2013-01-27T18:48:07Z “The Kalashnikov marks the guerilla, the terrorist, the child soldier, the dictator, and the thug — all of whom have found it to be a ready equalizer against morally or materially superior foes.” Jewelry Designed to Disarm 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z You are appalled as she decides that “only the admiration and support of the omnipotent dictator would be suitable for her genius.” ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z But just as dictators create themselves, very literally, as icons – striving for ubiquity in their image, always expressed in heroic or godlike terms – so is their fall a very literal one, says Pine. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z The image of the dictator appears to be going through something of a rehabilitation in Russia though. Russian politicians fail to see funny side of 'Death of Stalin' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “It’s really, really important that a dictator does not win. We felt we needed to very overtly support Ukraine.” Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Rick, too, has teetered into Difficult Man territory when he decided that the only way to keep his group alive was to be a dictator as opposed to a partner in leadership. Smart Watch: “The Walking Dead” axes Rick Grimes, as TV cancels Difficult Men 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z In his book “The Last Days of Stalin,” Joshua Rubenstein captures the dictator’s power over the Soviet Union in a quote: “Stalin was inside everyone, like the hammer alongside the sickle in every mind.” Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s not like he’s the dictator of a country and he can get you locked up. The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Their subject matter may be grim — suicide, grief, violence, murderous dictators — but his constructions of found footage and appropriated narration are inviting and accessible. | 'The Darkness of Day': How to Make the Grim Appear Artfully Beautiful 2010-10-12T22:49:00Z In the 1930s, Hollywood entered into an agreement with the Nazis, and as a result, the images on the American screen were censored by a foreign dictator. The Interview Is Not the First Time Hollywood Bowed to a Dictator 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z There was a brilliant article by Jonathan Freedland about how Trump wants to be a dictator. 'I didn’t want to do an ITV drama': Matthew Macfadyen on making it big in the US 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z And, like many dictators, he fancies himself as a writer. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z Like Fela, Femi aimed his political ire at African corruption, his songs criticizing despots and dictators for destroying the continent's potential. At Metro Femi Kuti carries on his father's music and mission 2011-05-01T15:02:00Z When Spain hosted the contest in 1969, Austria boycotted on account of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco's fascist politics. How Eurovision helps define Europe’s boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win) 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z One of his programs featured the Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Globe-trotting British broadcaster Whicker dead at 87 2013-07-12T16:14:32Z I suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called Coach.” A 1995 Novel Predicted Trump’s America 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The son of a poor farmer, Franqui entered leftist political movements as a youth, joined and left the Communist Party and became a journalist who eventually joined Castro's rebellion against dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuban writer, activist Carlos Franqui dies at 89 2010-04-17T17:41:00Z Whether we need an “Evita” that helps to humanize a woman who enabled a dictator is a matter of taste. Review: An ‘Evita’ Newly Tailored for Our Time 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z They should be reported on, fact-checked and put in context — not aired in their self-serving entirety as though he were a dictator with control over the state airwaves. Perspective | Live coverage of a Pennsylvania rally was another free ad for Trump’s favorite candidate: Himself 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A: I was already thinking about doing something about a fictional contemporary dictator when the graphic novel crossed my radar. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Do we really want to build tools to screen online content for copyright violations, only to discover that dictators use those very tools for spying on dissidents? Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z Two years later, Spanish dictator Franco died and the UK joined the European Economic Community — an ancestor of the EU. Brexit broke my heart: I’m British, Spanish and now completely lost 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z “I was a sort of dictator of the field, which I enjoyed, actually,” he said in an interview at the American University in Cairo in 2011. Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator of Arab Writers, Is Dead at 94 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z In a Mediterranean Sea that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini tried to transform into “an Italian lake,” Malta had “the only harbor available to the British between Gibraltar and Alexandria, Egypt,” notes military historian Rick Atkinson. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z On one side sits a Russian superstate, where a dictator has eliminated almost all opposition, and where people cannot speak their native languages or even perform folk dances. An Exiled Theater With a Warning for Europe 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Dow’s film features, for example, the song “President for Life,” a homage to François Duvalier, the dictator known a s Papa Doc, that portrays Haitians as happy and flourishing under his repressive rule. ?When the Drum Is Beating,? About Orchestre Septentrional 2012-04-10T22:50:42Z It’s getting harder and harder to avoid the conclusion that Trump suffers from the same afflictions common to dictators. Our disgruntled dictator 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The change happened slowly, starting with a 2014 Super Bowl commercial in which soldiers and dictators—presumably wearing Axe, although the commercial never says—abandon violence for romance. Axe Body Spray Isn't Selling Crazy Sex Any More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z But once this veteran actor arrives on the stage of the National Theatre’s Cottesloe in the role of the Russian dictator, you won’t be looking anywhere else. Theater Review: Dictators, Duchesses and Jukebox Musicals 2011-11-15T13:00:10Z "You cannot make peace with dictators!" barks Nelson. That Hamilton Woman: a tale of two halves (for better or for worse) 2011-01-06T09:07:00Z He could be a deposed dictator in exile, solitary and brooding, or a funeral director awaiting another bereaved relative. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z Throughout Carlos enjoys the spotlight that warmed him and — with the lovers who protected him, the journalists who covered him and the dictators who hired him — helped turn him into a myth. film: Beyond Bullets and Berets, Life in Wartime 2010-10-24T02:23:00Z The president is killed, and a cruel military dictator takes over. Summer Book Club: A girl from Chile becomes a refugee in ‘I Lived on Butterfly Hill’ 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Do you think there's a connection to the idea that Putin, according to Zelenskyy, fears comedy for his own reasons, and that Trump, a wannabe dictator, objectively fears comedy for similar reasons? Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But Jar Jar represents the well-meaning public that accidentally votes for a dictator. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In its relentless drive to replace oil and gas reserves, ExxonMobil has elected to do business with dictators and, at times, partner with soldiers and sailors accused of human-rights atrocities and acts of piracy. 'Private Empire': the secretive world of ExxonMobil 2012-05-03T20:13:04Z After 30 minutes the police arrived, but they were at a loss for how to stop the mockery of the dictator. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Actors, dictators, racing drivers and millionaires were subjected to Whicker's questioning. In pictures: Whicker's World 2013-07-12T13:31:37Z He writes, for instance, of the Salamanca papers, long lost documents seized by the dictator Francisco Franco to identify and target those who opposed him. 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “And it’s true that dictators generally don’t end their careers like disgraced American politicians with a stint on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ although that would have been an incredible season.” John Oliver: Trump and North Korea are “Goading each other toward armageddon” 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z In the late 1980s, the dictator began to change. Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z There also are displays about racially segregated buses and lunch counters in the American South and on dictators past and present including the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot of Cambodia and Syria's Bashar al-Assad. New Atlanta museum links human rights struggles of past and present 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Here’s My Foreign Policy: I am no hater, As long as you’re a dictator.” Style Invitational Week 1305: Hits and Googles 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z This time the festival focuses on Tunisia, where two years ago protests led to the ouster of the dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and set off the Arab Spring. Spare Times for May 3-May 9 2013-05-02T23:24:26Z The Italian dictator escaped with merely a grazed nose. Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence by Michael Newton – review 2012-11-18T00:05:09Z Opposition to the restaurant on Korean social media erupted over the weekend, with one user calling the management “pathetic” for “featuring portraits of war criminals and dictators,” per the South China Morning Post. North Korean-themed restaurant in Seoul removes images of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il after backlash 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s billed as a treatise on “bottom feeding at the top,” and shows the gossip queen’s nocturnal crawl through a velvet-rope-line world of dictators, scoundrels, movie stars and politicians. Cindy Adams, Gossip’s G.O.A.T. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The hotel is the property of U Tay Za, reportedly the richest man in the country — and a close associate of its former military dictator, Gen. Than Shwe. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z The movie’s mad energy suggests that Pintilie, some of whose earlier films were personally banned by Ceausescu, is pounding a stake through the dictator’s heart the better to dance on his grave. ‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z During the early seventies she was held in prison and tortured repeatedly by the military dictators who ruled her country for nearly 25 years. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Marcos, the flamboyant widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and founder of the cultural center near Manila Bay, said after visiting the exhibition that the work was a "desecration" and no longer represents art. Art exhibit draws ire of Philippine Catholics 2011-08-08T12:51:08Z In fact, Baron Cohen will play a fictional dictator inspired by a book Hussein wrote. Correction: Sacha Baron Cohen story 2011-01-21T21:16:07Z While the mainstream press and others have expressed moral outrage over Trump’s fawning associations with brutal dictators, they have refused to examine these relationships within a broader historical context. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Today’s dictators confound their critics by peppering their speeches, the author says, “with references to liberty, justice and the rule of law.” Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University history professor who studies dictators, says Biden is unlikely to attract a mass following of “die-hard fans” because his sober style represents a return to political normality after Trump. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In her account of the Eichmann trial, she describes how she thinks the tyrant dictator emerges through emotional appeal to the people, rather than political appeal. Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z When Neruda died of natural causes shortly afterward, his funeral was a catalyst for the first major protests against dictator Augusto Pinochet. Chile nixes renaming int'l airport for poet Neruda 2010-04-09T20:30:00Z SANTIAGO, Chile — Newly declassified U.S. documents indicate that Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet planned to use violence to annul the referendum that ended his brutal regime. US warned Chile dictator over plebiscite 2013-02-23T17:53:09Z The answer, it turned out, was provided not by historians, but by a German actor, Bruno Ganz, in the film Downfall, which charts the dictator's last few days in his Berlin bunker. Will this be the Downfall of remix culture? Don't bet on it 2010-04-29T11:13:00Z “There is honor and dignity in confronting the dictator and outlasting the dictator,” Ramos said. Life After Castro at Miami’s Most Famous Cuban Restaurant 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In the original script he was sent, Park said, the role was not specifically Kim but "a vague North Korean dictator." 'The Interview's' Kim Jong Un actor, Randall Park, knew it was 'insane' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The greatest danger today stems from Putin, both because he is uncontrollable and because his staying in power serves to encourage the worst impulses of all the Saudi, Arab, and other dictators. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Feargus O’Sullivan writes on why maintaining the dictator’s birthplace may be a more effective way of contending with his bloody legacy than removing it. Roundup: Guggenheim Helsinki may be a no-go, Hitler's birthplace, Verlaine's gun, Abramovic's book 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The song-and-dance numbers tear down the quote marks like triumphant insurgents toppling the statues of a hated dictator -- and as soon as the music stops, the statues go right back up again. Why "Glee" is this century's "Twin Peaks" 2010-06-08T17:10:00Z His list of interviews was a veritable host of the great, the good and the not so good, most notably the notorious Haitian dictator 'Papa Doc' Duvalier. Obituary: Alan Whicker 2013-07-12T11:45:54Z France's president has been accused of acting like a banana republic dictator in trying to pressure Mexico to release Cassez. Nicolas Sarkozy triggers row with Mexico over French kidnapper 2011-02-17T18:32:55Z Dalser was forcibly confined to a psychiatric hospital as she continued to loudly claim the dictator was her husband; but no paperwork was ever forthcoming to prove it. Film review: Vincere 2010-05-13T22:50:00Z "I brought down dictators," Bob says to one of his fellow spies. 2010-01-16T19:10:00Z The home buzzed with wasps and flies and featured a picture of the former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin on the wall. The Legacy of a Falling Spider 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z TV is more of a writer’s or producer’s medium; it clips the wings of a director and prevents them from behaving like tinpot dictators. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z This year she parted ways with her manager — her father, Matthew Knowles — and at points in this show he was the recipient of carefully placed barbs, painted as a sort of benevolent dictator. Music Review: Closer to Her Fans and Further Away From Her Past 2011-08-15T22:00:35Z But this episode beat that, in the scene where Leanne accuses Pennsatucky of lording it over the prison “like some Hillary Clinton dictator.” 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: It's Valentine's Day at the Litch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z If Mr. Gvasalia is one of fashion’s democrats, the house’s Spanish founder, Cristóbal Balenciaga, was its most famous dictator. Balenciaga Names Demna Gvasalia, Vetements Designer, as Artistic Director 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z I did like this silly, over-the-top yet audacious movie that imagines the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Here are the best (and worst) movies opening this weekend 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco, supported the idea, but the cathedral’s bishop and others opposed it, and ultimately the plan was shelved. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Vikram cuts a strong figure as the police officer, though in his dark glasses, he often resembles a sinister hard man from a film about a South American dictator. Indian epic romance "Raavan" is breathtaking 2010-06-18T03:30:00Z But his next film provides the Borat star with his most outlandish collaborator to date: the former Iraqi dictator – and reputed romantic novelist – Saddam Hussein. Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel 2011-01-20T16:39:32Z Geographically, Spain should be on Greenwich Mean Time, but in 1942 the fascist dictator Francisco Franco switched the nation to European Central Time in solidarity with Adolf Hitler. Siesta no more? Why Spanish sleeping habits are under strain 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z On something like a whim, he headed to Romania after the fall of its dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and stayed for nearly seven years, filing reports for Granta, The Wilson Quarterly and other publications. William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z At the end, the audience sees the prince dying in a hail of bullets as the Elector of Brandenburg, a prototype fascist dictator clad in black, supervises his execution by firing squad. Lost in translation: why have we declared war on foreign dramatists? 2010-09-01T11:32:00Z Figurative work on this scale is usually confined to war memorials or statues of dictators. Artist of the week 120: Thomas Houseago 2011-01-05T12:52:15Z From there, he berates bankers, imperialists, third-world dictators and the clergy, and provides a caustic history of black slavery on Maangamizi. Akala: The Thieves Banquet – review 2013-05-25T23:05:32Z In this respect, The Plot Against America confronts its viewers with the most peculiar and crucial quality of a dictator’s rise, which is that it’s all so banal until it suddenly, horrifyingly, isn’t. 'It can't happen here': the horrifying power of The Plot Against America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z I’m no dictator, but even I saw potential for more tourism. Explorer: In Haiti, Beauty That Plays Hard to Get (To) 2014-02-13T15:08:18Z The novelist, in turn, burnished the dictator’s image, describing Castro in 1990 as a “man of austere habits and insatiable dreams, with an old-fashioned formal education, careful words and fine manners.” Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z There is, however, an even bigger spark at the heart of No, which Larraín says is more than just a story of artists toppling a dictator. When Don Draper toppled a dictator 2013-03-15T17:10:00Z Francisco Franco, the former dictator of Spain, died almost 45 years ago. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Le Samouraï’ and ‘The Silence of Others’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar/Film4 Irons shares with Royal some sensibility – “I have the natural tendency of a, hopefully benign, dictator” – but not an aesthetic. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Baron Cohen's film is described as "the heroic tale of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed". Sacha Baron Cohen criticised over 'negative stereotypes' of Arabs 2012-05-17T11:19:56Z In Chile, he always managed to be on the side that opposed the dictators. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z In my best month, I overthrew two dictators before breakfast. BREAKING: The Greatest Living American Writer: “I can no longer support this Trump fellow” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z What infamous dictator does this bug look like?: Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-07-09T12:01:00Z The North Korean dictator appeared in a state-issued photo over the weekend, in which he is shown cutting the ribbon on a new fertilizer factory outside Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un appears to be alive after all. So why did CNN and other news outlets report he was on his deathbed? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z For every dictator, we could have one million customers. Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z Park, a North Korean defector, said he's working with the U.S.-based nonprofit Human Rights Foundation for the stunt, which is intended to undermine the cult of personality built around dictator Kim Jong Un. 'The Interview' headed to North Korea by balloon, activist says 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Top Gear: Cars of the People The season premiere of this auto-oriented series takes a historical look at how dictators jump-started the popularity of the automobile which led to the mobilization of the masses. Monday's TV Highlights: 'Pete Rose: 25 Years in Exile' on ESPN 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z I’d be merciful, yet ruthless — a benevolent dictator of sorts, keeping obedient villages safe but crushing those late to pay their tributes with an iron fist. My crushing student debt 2013-05-18T23:00:00Z In one tale, a dictator, bald since youth, decrees that all his subjects must also shave their heads, arguing that the “moral unity of the state depended on all heads looking the same.” A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z You have to be as authentic as you can in a role like that, otherwise it’s pointless and becomes a puppet show of a dictator. Idris Elba’s Toughest Role Yet: Going Brutal With Grace for ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z “There are these really bad dictators in the Middle East, and we got rid of them and in many cases there’s even worse chaos.” Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z He viewed the world from a left-wing perspective, bitterly opposing Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the right-wing Chilean dictator, and unswervingly supporting Fidel Castro in Cuba. Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2014-04-18T01:58:28Z As for the future of the region, he predicts that “new dictators will offer themselves as an alternative to the horrors of ISIS” and the current chaos. Review: ‘And Then All Hell Broke Loose,’ Richard Engel’s Memoir of Reporting From the Middle East 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The Iraqi dictator wanted to maintain the bluff that he had weapons of mass destruction to keep "his number one enemy," Iran, at bay. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z That episode, which illustrates the power of a dictator to act with impunity, is the most acutely political of the tales. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z The thrill of overthrowing a dictator led to the disillusionment of discovering that the political pathologies that he both exploited and deepened were, and are, still raging. “The Other Side of Everything,” Reviewed: A Daughter Documents Yugoslavia’s Nationalistic Nightmare 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The flashing disco ball and the name-checking of notorious dictators among the guests? Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z "I'm a film-maker who was very marked by the ways of the dictator," he says today. Patricio Guzmán, Chile's master of documentary, focuses on the stars 2012-07-20T21:55:08Z The scars of colonization and a dictator that powdered his skin to appear lighter are still visible in Dominican culture. ‘In the Heights’ and Colorism: What Is Lost When Afro-Latinos Are Erased 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “If you look at children of dictators there’s often a desperate need to be noticed by their all-powerful fathers,” Mr. Cooper said. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z Of course, while it's safe to say that all works of dictator literature are to some extent fictional, few tyrants have tackled the art of Chekhov and Maupassant. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z It will perform Shakespeare's study of a dictator in decline, "King Lear." The Bard goes global with 37 plays in 37 languages 2011-09-26T23:02:08Z She’s most infamous for the one about Dominion Voting Systems coordinating with dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez to steal the election from Trump. Perspective | Don’t buy into Trump’s disapproval of Fox News. The network is working hard on his election-denial fantasy. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z "The weight of literature is present, the weight of dictators and protest," says Fabry. Impressive exhibition tells the story of Latin America in pictures 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z And yet here we are, allowing a foreign dictator to dictate to us. Absurd, this fuss over Three Stooges-like 'The Interview' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z And Gary Cole is wonderfully slimy as Livingston's passive-aggressive dictator of a boss. 5 funniest workplace movies 2011-07-08T22:27:03Z "Great bloke, charismatic, but I suppose he has been a bit like an African dictator in that he has had lots of money but dubious taste," he cackles. BBC's Shane Allen: 'I'm doing the job of comedy gods' 2013-03-24T18:15:01Z Like the Communist Party in China and rising dictators from Egypt to Hungary, MBS saw no need for checks on his power and crushed all threats to it, perceived or otherwise. ‘MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman,’ by Ben Hubbard: An Excerpt 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z "There is little doubt that he created the mythic creature that the Latin American dictator became," she admits. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z The slayings were sanctioned by longtime military dictator and U.S. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Dalton Trumbo was too soft on dictators like Stalin and Hitler, or so said CNSnews.com in its vetting of “Trumbo,” an admiring look at that screenwriter’s battle with the Hollywood blacklist. Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Trump’s collaboration with dictators and right-wing rogues also suggests something equally ominous in the photo snapshots of the celebratory mutual embrace that is the symbol not of companionship but of shared resentments. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z A barbed political satire about the fall of an African dictator, told from the perspective of talking animals. Biting Satires Dominate Booker Prize Shortlist 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z But Shankar is drawing from a fictional history established before that leader took office, following the playbook of any number of charismatic dictators along with storylines drawn from Corey's 2016 novel "Babylon's Ashes." On its final run, "The Expanse" serves a last supper for we who continue to for our humanity 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z "Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators and tyrants to their knees faster than any other medium," he explained. 11 memorable facts about "History Of The World, Part I" 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Could the UK ever be ruled over by a Syrian-style dictator? Theatre Uncut 2012 – review 2012-11-14T18:25:22Z His rapid rise through in a Wall Street firm stokes his ambitions for a political career back home: “In 25 years I’m going to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability.” The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism 2013-04-26T03:30:28Z And the checkpoints, the shakedowns, the roadblock dictators. Personal Journeys: In West Africa, a Dollar and a Meal 2013-05-06T21:58:34Z "I think he's a great leader and he's much like me, a dictator," said Howard. Lookalikes of Trump, North Korea's Kim grab Hong Kong by surprise 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Crowds fight the police under clouds of tear gas on a Nile bridge, bringing down the dictator Hosni Mubarak. The Failure of Egypt’s Revolution 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z As dictators around the region fall or are challenged, Tunisia, while far from untroubled, offers a reassuring example of what might emerge from the wreckage. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z The Soviet dictator was a colossal figure in the mid-20th century, even in the west. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In between Waters played one of his most convincing roles: the lean, gray-haired dictator in a trench coat and shades with red arm band. Concert review: Roger Waters, 'The Wall' at Wrigley Field 2012-06-09T06:30:00Z The dictator reportedly developed a fondness for Swiss cheese during his early education in Switzerland. Stephen Colbert examines North Korea's cheese crisis 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z If you don’t realize it, it’s dangerous — most dictators and superego guys are really dangerous because they’re attached completely to that voice without realizing that it’s them! Birdman Director Alejandro González Iñárritu: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope Is "A Terrible Film" 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z At one level, Trump’s support of right wing demagogues and dictators is often acknowledged to be indicative of his refusal to use the office the presidency to defend human rights. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Fagen and Becker’s lyrics have been described as cynical and sinister, and the artists themselves as “sociopaths masquerading as benign dictators,” a reference to their perfectionist methods in the studio. Review | How Steely Dan made its mark on music — and shaped an American cool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Liz and Heath work on the science to try to stop Jones, and everyone works together to defeat the dictator. What to watch on Monday: ‘Love It or List It’ returns on HGTV 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z With just five dancers, a few animal masks and the progressively cacophonous accompaniment of her live band, she conjures up a succession of figures – dictators, ancient gods – all with the power to control and enthral. Rosie Kay Dance Company – review 2013-03-15T17:33:37Z Night after night there is music and games, pranks and funny anecdotes, all involving A-list stars with whom Fallon interacts as admiring peer rather than benevolent dictator. A Jimmy Fallon report card: ‘Tonight Show’ rocks 2014-03-14T18:20:45Z He hasn’t been able to go full-on totalitarian dictator, but as far as somebody who is completely ruining America’s reputation and distorting young people’s view of what excellence is, I mean, he’s shockingly awful. Van Jones: “There was only one white guy in Hillary Clinton’s ad — and it was Donald Trump” 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z She recounts the tangled legacy of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and her baby brother’s namesake: “He was freedom fighter and dictator; father of the nation and pillager in chief.” In ‘Aftershocks,’ a Search for Home in a Life Around the World 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Here it is 2021, and NBC Universal’s plan for survival in the streaming age now relies on Peacock, one of the new services festooning your TV app screen like medals on a dictator’s uniform. ‘Girls5Eva,’ ‘Rutherford Falls’ and the Nostalgia Trap 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z “It’s now clear that this new government is not democratic, that the people who run the ministries are the same people who were there under the dictator.” ?The Island President? and Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives 2012-03-28T12:00:00Z Around 1497, Girolamo Savonarola, a Florentine who fancied himself a kind of moral dictator, turned up his nose at jokes, sex, and any kind of vice. What was the first banned book in history? 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Mindful of the political appropriation and abuse of sport and its venues by 20th-century dictators, he relocates the opera to a modern stadium, where Caligula's terrorised subjects cheer him on and wave flags like automata. Caligula – review 2012-05-27T16:55:01Z It includes a 10-step guide on how to become a dictator, ranging from hair-dying to creating false enemies, from cultivating a personality cult to going into a state of denial over one's own impending demise. Documentary brings Egypt's revolt to Venice fest 2011-09-09T13:44:54Z In 2015, Corbet made his directing debut, The Childhood of a Leader, starring Robert Pattinson – a period piece about a Little Lord Fauntleroy tyke who grows up to be a fascist dictator. Vox Lux director Brady Corbet: 'The movie is about the desire to be iconic' 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z These policies weren’t the result of democratic decision-making following robust public debate, they were the decrees of a dictator and his inner circle, issued in an environment of stringent censorship. The Virtues of Screening “Forbidden” Films 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z There he forged some documents and applied to the United Nations to be treated as a refugee from the regime, claiming he had fought the dictator. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z From there, for more than 40 years, the Somoza family dictators looked down upon the sprawling city from an enormous Moorish-style palace. 36 Hours in Managua, Nicaragua 2012-09-13T17:39:57Z The Gaddafi family is in danger of failing to live up to our expectations of dictator chic. Gaddafi, the great-taste dictator of interior design 2011-08-25T17:03:47Z In one ensemble, a sculpture of Trump wearing nothing but a cowboy hat appeared alongside equally naked Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco. Dragons, politicians go up in flames in Spain's fiery festival 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In the 1980s its literary output was directed at South Korean democracy movements, then resisting their own military dictator, in the hope of kindling pro-North sympathies in the South. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z The author, a professor of Italian history, situates President Trump in a long line of dictators across the world, from Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. 16 New Books to Watch for in November 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Her writing was sometimes censored, and she was fined at least once, under the government of Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator from 1939 until 1975. Ana María Matute, Spanish Novelist Marked by Civil War, Dies at 88 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z I was scheduled to do a series of TV interviews the next morning, to discuss the fall of the Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir. Sudan’s Uprising, Bashir’s Fall, and my Father’s Passing 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z There’s no doubt, Quinn noted, that Trump is cut from the same cloth as dictators in third world countries who want to feared, not laughed at. Colin Quinn on why PC culture ruins comedy: "Comedy's never positive" 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The world is still blessed with such people and still cursed with the conditions and dictators who shadow them. How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Russia — Alexei German, a Russian film director best known for his works offering a bitter view of life in the Soviet Union under dictator Josef Stalin, died Thursday, his son said. Acclaimed Russian film director Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T14:35:11Z In the 1980s, the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s repressive regime, along with increasing shortages, made the country an austere and unattractive destination for foreign tourists. Romania’s Springs Tap a Region’s Deep History 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z This expansive and intimate documentary examines Cuba both from the dictator’s seat and from the ground up, with scenes capturing the country’s economic decline, tourism boom and response to Castro’s death in 2016. What’s On TV Friday: ‘Hey Arnold!’ and Grammy Highlights 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Dobson’s book proposes that many dictators today may be feeling a similar sort of blues. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z Avowedly leftist, these Republican fighters received antiquated weapons and other supplies from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z And I try to be a benevolent dictator as much as I can. Daniel Clowes's 'The Complete Eightball' Comes Out Next Month 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Why did Dany even let him into her isolated dictator lair? What Survives After the “Game of Thrones” Finale 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The new year begins and, in defiance of even its allies in Beijing, North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong-un test a nuclear weapon. Cover Story: Kim Jong-un’s Big Announcement 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z In his first major film, "Iron Island" in 2005, families live and work for a benign dictator on a rusting beached cargo ship. Defying political pressure, Iranian director keeps camera running 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z "The Expendables" revolves around a group of mercenaries hired to overthrow a South American dictator. "The Expendables" eyes brawny box office debut 2010-08-13T00:53:00Z In adulthood, their memories — or are they dreams? — revolve around one of their classmates, Estrella González, whose father they come to learn is a high-ranking officer in the dictator's state police. November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z We see the destruction of democracy and the rise of a cruel dictator who tries to eliminate all opposition. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s clear who Atwood is referring to: a sort of dictator, who plays the God card and exploits the internet. Margaret Atwood: ‘If you’re going to speak truth to power, make sure it’s the truth’ 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Hirst's statue in Devon revives the ugly vacuities of art in the age of the dictators. Damien Hirst's new statue is a dangerous monstrosity 2012-10-11T14:23:22Z I couldn't equate the attractive woman in the picture with the virtual dictator described in the book. Summer readings: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 2011-08-17T15:32:15Z No, Trump is not about to initiate a coup, or suspend elections or become a dictator. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Then it’s back to their mean little town with its small-minded dictators and frustrated, hothouse desires. ‘To the Stars’ Review: Rebels in Bobby Socks, Yearning for More 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z There are a lot of evil dictators and killers on this list. Bangable dudes in history 2011-03-22T12:58:00Z “Splendour” is set in a private salon in a dictator’s palace in an unspecified country. Ben Brantley on London Theater, Where Characters Drink to Dull the Pain of Life 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The play is essentially about the power vacuum after a dictator falls, and how you tend to fill it using the template of what has gone before. Can an all-women Julius Caesar work? 2012-11-19T19:18:27Z Late night hosts took aim at the latest developments within Trump’s government, saying the president has gone from “dickish to dictator”. Late night hosts on the evolution of Trump: 'Dickish to dictatorish' 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Book burning was routine for Spain’s Inquisition and Franco’s dictatorship as well as for Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong and a good many other dictators. A Love Affair With Bookstores 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Berlanga, who spent three years as president of Filmoteca Española soon after the dictator Francisco Franco died, is remembered by many for directing masterful comedies whose subversive undercurrents survived Franco’s censors. In Transit Blog: Historic Madrid Theater Celebrates Spanish Directors 2011-09-11T10:00:38Z But one cannot imagine Kerry selling a pardon, or raking bucks from foreign dictators, or using public office for private gain. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z "He’s a vicious dictator and he admires vicious dictators," she told Variety. Rosie O’Donnell is singing show tunes at Donald Trump in protest: “He’s a vicious dictator” 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The city is proud of its most famous resident though some Germans blame his ideas for the rise of Communist dictators in Russia, China and Cuba and the Cold War division of their country. Marx birthplace cashes in on 0 euro notes for anniversary 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The incident raised fears of the influence of Islamists in Tunisia after the uprising that ousted its dictator. Tunisia station apologizes for airing 'Persepolis' 2011-10-11T17:37:08Z “Quickly or gradually, they eliminated human rights in their countries,” he wrote of the new class of dictators. Ali Salem’s Journey 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z I say I proclaim myself book club dictator and ram Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom down your Dickensian throats. Where will the reading group revolution take us? 2011-08-16T08:41:20Z Hailed by Serbian nationalists as their champion against Catholic Croats and Bosnian and Kosovar Albanian Muslims, Milosevic was seen as a brutal dictator by the West. Milosevic - the musical - plays in Kosovo 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Hitler, a great Wagner fan, was supportive of the festival and Winifred Wagner, who ran the festival following the death of her husband, Wagner's son Siegfried, was a fervent admirer of the dictator. Russian star withdraws from Bayreuth Festival over Nazi tattoo 2012-07-22T15:41:33Z Moreover, the announcer insists that “Tickling Giants” is not approved for all audiences; dictators are encouraged to “please leave the room now.” The documentary “Tickling Giants” is a chronicle of weaponized satire and the Arab Spring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z When I arrive to interview him, he's still in his general's costume, but he's the exact opposite of a military dictator bent on total warfare. Ricky Gervais 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z “You don’t need to chant my name. America doesn’t have dictators — yet.” For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z So none of the three dictators would have found fault with Labour's kitsch vision of a nuclear couple, who have apparently given birth to puppets, staring across iridescent green fields towards a blazing sun. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z It’s unlikely that the filmmakers would have felt as sanguine about holding an African, Latin American or even a Middle Eastern dictator up to the same kind of ridicule. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Our president has taunted a foreign dictator who is developing a nuclear arsenal. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The dictator responded with a heckling that briefly make the term "dotard" the world of the day. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Because it’s not just about Paul – it’s about the royal experts, the bookies, the rogue state dictators and so many more. A spotters’ guide to the royal wedding’s biggest absolute chancers 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z When the Noriega dictator years ended and the U.S. returned all that canal land, things just took off. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z To a nearly horrifying extent, the director presents the civilian cost of unchecked wars and dictators: Images of corpses punctuate the words of the many talking heads. ‘The Corridors of Power’ Review: The Human Cost of Foreign Policy 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “What on earth ever made me think I could play the son of an Iraqi dictator I don’t know,” Mr. Cooper said. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z She and fellow students ritually honor medal-bedecked war veterans, and live in the shadows of giant renderings of dictator Kim Jong Un and his father and grandfather. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z We are happy that Muammar died … He used to smother us," she says, before telling off Libya's toppled dictator as if he were her own son: "Gaddafi, Gaddafi, Gaddaaaaafi. Lights, camera, revolution: the birth of Libyan cinema after Gaddafi's fall 2012-10-01T18:01:01Z And all I wanted to scream was ‘Please, please still like me even though my character turns into a mass-killing dictator! Please still think that I’m representing women in a really fabulous way.’ Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z This new version of The Governor, played to perfection by David Morrissey, combined some of the best features of the old dictator. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor 2.0 2013-02-11T13:00:47Z The work, made of silicon, resin and fiberglass, with human hair and real clothes, was created by Spanish artist Eugenio Merino - best known for his hyper-realistic models of dictators including Spain's Francisco Franco. Eerie model of Picasso's corpse lies in Spanish birthplace 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z 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 In “What We Lost,” a group of friends — blind, footless, noseless — plans to storm the palace of their heartless dictator. Debut Stories From Clare Sestanovich, Brenda Peynado and Choi Eunyoung 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Out of the mayhem emerge three “witches,” a woman and two men: American-sounding covert operatives spreading unrest and looking for a puppet to be their next tin-pot dictator. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z "We are not Tunis," shouted the other ageing Arab dictators who are all fond of dyeing their hair and moustaches. After Tunisia: Mourid Barghouti on Palestine 2011-01-28T13:00:02Z “And once you start shooting protesters in the streets, that’s a really big signal that this is going to be a dictator.” Margaret Atwood: ‘If you’re going to speak truth to power, make sure it’s the truth’ 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z A worried friend recalled Gödel talking about “some inner contradictions” in the Constitution that would make it legally possible “for somebody to become a dictator and set up a fascist regime.” A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Ultimately you don't think about nuclear bombs or dictators threatening world peace. Iran state TV says Oscar win victory over Israel 2012-02-27T13:29:08Z Yet he also considers history, as in a rendering of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair, whose cryptic inscription, “Seksreligiapol,” refers to the Catholic Church’s support for the dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. In the galleries: ‘Transient States’ illustrates Steven Walls’s rigorous realism The ubiquitous portraits and chest pins of Kim Il Sung, its first dictator, only began under his son, who deified his father to legitimise the succession. Loan-star state 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z She railed against the Spanish dictator Franco; later, the Vietnam War. Celebrating Carmelita Maracci, Who ‘Took the Girdle Off Ballet’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z When Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s critics accused him of ruling like a dictator during the Depression, he threw a toga party at the White House and dressed as Caesar. Donald Trump Has Drained the Swamp (of Good Christmas Parties) 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Q: What a tumultuous year it's been, with dictators overthrown in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, and protests in the streets of major American cities. Baez in search of era's soundtrack 2011-10-28T19:45:56Z In his memoir, Mr. Patch said the recipients of Bedford’s services included the dissident Soviet writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of the late Soviet dictator. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies A. The first thing one must do is to situate oneself in the context of the struggle against the dictatorship of Franco, a dictator who was widely supported by U.S. governments. The Spanish media impresario Jaume Roures branches out 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The first thing a dictator does is discredit the media. "The Comey Rule" will likely trigger Trump, and series star Michael Kelly couldn't be happier 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Initially Sony had concerns about making comedic hay out of a plot to kill a real world leader and asked if Rogen and Goldberg would consider substituting a fictional dictator instead. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke The Shostakovich concerto, written six years after Stalin’s death in 1953, seems a sardonic look back at the composer’s times of troubles under the thumb of that dictator. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z One number on it, sung from the point-of-view of Fidel Castro, suggests "that the thing that defines a successful long-term dictator is what they wear." The Bobs, now Seattle-based, celebrate 30th birthday 2012-08-22T23:14:03Z He never tests his premise against the really hard questions: the Palestinians, the West Bank settlements and Israel’s recent embrace of so-called illiberal democracies like Hungary and Poland, as well as dictators. Why Are American Jews Falling Out of Love With Israel? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Tito, who led former communist Yugoslavia from the end of World War Two until death in 1980, was criticized as a totalitarian dictator by some at home and abroad. Montenegro unveils monument of ex-Yugoslav communist leader Tito 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In the course of the study, published in the journal of Current Biology, the researchers use something called the “children’s dictator game,” a.k.a. stickerpalooza. Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Most importantly, censorship keeps a population ignorant, which holds great appeal to dictators. The right’s religion lie: Science, sex and the truth about God and politics 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The equipment in the factory doesn’t work, but it houses the remnants of two long-obsolete turbines sought by a certain North African dictator known as the Colonel. When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “It’s difficult to make diplomacy sound as attractive as taking out a dictator with our military,” Rhodes says. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It is amorphous, decadent, lyrical, drawing inspiration from a host of countless dictators from Latin America and beyond. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Colvin also had a knack for gaining the confidence of dictators and demagogues. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Is Caesar the chimpanzee a dictator or a democrat? — that are unresolvable because the movies finally lack all conviction. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Poor Mexico — described by the dictator Porfirio Díaz as “so far from God” — was drawing closer to the United States, Canada and the historic free trade deal that its Harvard-educated president was negotiating. The Phony War on Drugs 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z He vigorously defended the 1980s Band-Aid initiative to raise funds for starving Ethiopians, though acknowledged his difficulty in dealing with the country's brutal dictator, Mengistu. Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z "And what I saw over this period is that my ego, which can be a cruel dictator, had been playing me." In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The 80-year-old former dictator, who is currently in jail in Panama for money laundering, claims the video game company used his image without his permission. This Former Dictator Is Suing the 'Call of Duty' Makers 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet, despite the general anxiety and the unwillingness to discuss sales over the dead bodies of revolution victims, the departure of dictators is seen as good news at the highest management levels. Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z This ends with a dim-witted double replacing the dictator, and the temporarily deposed Aladeen having his trademark beard shaved off. The Dictator ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:03Z The problem started in Syria with a cruel dictator murdering 300,00o of his own people. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Mussolini’s is a fascist dictator’s memoir written as you would expect a fascist dictator to write it. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z This time, the hero is a prisoner of his family, not terrorists: “Tyrant” centers on an American born in the Middle East who’s trying to escape his heritage as the son of a dictator. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Oliver, who is thirty-seven, established his comic voice in Britain by pillorying conservative social values and entrenched institutions: the Catholic Church, the monarchy, finance types, vain and dangerous dictators and autocrats. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Another notorious resident was Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former Haitian dictator overthrown in a 1986 popular uprising, who owned a $2.5 million condominium through a Panamanian holding company. Trump Tower, a Home for Celebrities and Charlatans 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z All these chapter forms are short, if unpredictable, and the reader feels not at the whim of an experimental dictator, but in the steady hands of a master. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z His final novel, “Numero Zero,” published in 2015, proposed the notion that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived World War II and lived for many years afterward. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Bill Morrison has contributed lyrically grainy black-and-white film projections of scenes including a sail on the Nile and a crowd ready to be whipped into frenzy by a dictator. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z This is very much a personal tragedy, a story not just of whispering ghosts from a play about secrets and lies but a play littered with the ghosts of eastern European dictators and their victims. My Hamlet 2010-08-20T14:55:00Z Other individuals getting the documentary treatment this year include the comedian Richard Pryor; Lawrence Taylor, the former New York Giants linebacker; and Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator who was killed in 2011. Richard Pryor and Dick Cheney Focus of Showtime Documentaries 2013-01-14T23:13:12Z The pilot episode found Rollin Hand disguised as a dictator bent on nuclear destruction. Martin Landau obituary 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In under a decade David went from immortalizing the 18th-century version of the Weathermen to sketching promotional images of a military dictator in the act of crowning himself Emperor of France. Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z “Putin is a bloody dictator, a terrorist who must be stopped as soon as possible,” she said. A Party Crawl With Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z “No” is a gripping dramatization of the effort to oust the dictator. ‘No’: The power of one word against tyranny 2013-03-28T21:43:19Z The majority wrote to script, casting the man in Miraflores as tinpot dictator or socialist saviour. Hugo Chávez: the best books on the late Venezuelan leader 2013-03-07T15:25:53Z The original book portraying the cruel Hunger Games run by the repressive dictators of Panem, which used to be the United States. 10 books most-often borrowed from King County Library in 2010 2010-12-18T01:25:21Z “Photographing dictators was always my strength,” Ms. Steiner said in a 2006 interview with The New York Times. Lisl Steiner, Colorful Creator of Black-and-White Photographs, Dies at 95 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z York has gone so far as to formulate a number of key principles which, he says, invariably inform how a dictator will deck out his humble palace. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z He finally compared it to a “dictator giving a press conference”. Late-night hosts on Trump's disastrous press conference: 'We elected a mess' 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z And Tancredi finds himself agreeing with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as he lays into the politically correct Leader whose fear of offending renders his proclamations absurd and meaningless. New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media 2011-09-29T13:09:54Z Pieces by Picasso, Gauguin and other masters are thought to be in the possession of the family of the country's former dictator. Marcos art seized in Philippines 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z "We shouldn't let a dictator tell us what to watch," he said. More a cause than a must-see, 'The Interview' finally arrives in theaters 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Throughout the series, Bill has displayed the charm, belief and obsessive drive of a born politician — or a dictator, whose ego is rarely clouded by the saving grace of self-doubt. Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z The book was based on diaries and conversations, and included poems and letters by the former dictator, who was executed for crimes against humanity in 2006. Saddam Hussein's daughter seeking publisher for his memoirs 2012-05-28T15:06:56Z I hate to give a dictator the last word, so let me ask, what happened with the triumphal boulevard? Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z This was not too surprising: Romania was then ruled by the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, whose regime was notorious for its extensive surveillance. Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In our current age, when demagogues and dictators once more stomp about the stage, Kissinger is “more than a figure out of history,” Gewen writes. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But perhaps the most powerful is the one that Shirky – himself a prominent evangelist for the democratic power of services such as Twitter and Facebook – labels "the dictator's dilemma". SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z “So it’s understandable if people are afraid of sticking their necks out. I mean, that is how dictators have always maintained their power.” After Scott Rudin bullying exposé, there are mostly crickets 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Adikoesoemo was born into a middle-class family in East Java during the early 1960s, at the height of Indonesia’s political and economic turmoil in the transition to the rule of the dictator Suharto. Thanks to One Man’s Collection, Jakarta Now Has a World-Class Museum 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z “If I’m understanding this correctly, and I think I am, the paragons of leadership are a king, a military dictator and power-crazed wannabe czar,” Stewart joked. Jon Stewart gleefully mocks Fox News’ desires for President Obama 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Three sisters, targeted by a Dominican dictator, die in an automobile accident, but a fourth sister lives. Washington Post bestsellers: June 25, 2017 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z When the dictators lost their grips, countries across the region imploded, loosing savagery and suffering that still burns on. Why Libya Continues to Burn 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z There is not a record of her slapping the dictator, but she did walk out after he made a pass at her. Reel history | In the Time of the Butterflies: feisty but it doesn't really fly 2010-03-18T09:30:00Z That was a political continuum, from the bringing down of a dictator to the election of a president. The Carpetbagger: Jehane Noujaim on Filming History as It Happens 2014-01-02T14:00:35Z After all, the diminutive dictator loves cinema so much he once kidnapped Shin Sang-ok – the "Orson Welles of South Korea" – and forced him to make communist kaiju movies. Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z The Tunisians were first to topple their dictator. Tales of spring and winter 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z As it turns out, that international view served him and the audience brilliantly when America elected an authoritarian and would-be dictator. Trevor Noah made "The Daily Show" his own — and better 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Using a nickname only known to the dictator’s oldest friends, Bukharin wrote: “Koba, why is my death necessary for you?” Dear “Star Wars” fans: I’m super sorry I ruined the whole thing for everybody 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z At the same time, Stone has been drawn to meeting and documenting some of the world’s dictators and strongmen. Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Fascinated by Stalin, he went to the Soviet Union in 1930 and glimpsed the shadows beneath the dictator's shining Five Year Plan. TV review: Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones; Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest 2012-07-05T21:20:01Z It is just mischievous enough to be adopted by your children in the schoolyard; and it’s just menacing enough to be seized upon by actual dictators seeking to suppress critical voices in repressive regimes. The Truth Is Hard. But for a New York Times Lawyer, Defending It Is Fun. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z OK, it was a little weird that the performance -- which included Usher -- happened to be for the son of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Why is Beyonce untouchable? 2011-02-23T18:22:00Z Her made-for-Netflix film First They Killed My Father, tells the story of life under the regime of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot. Money 'taken from Cambodian child' in casting game for Angelina Jolie movie 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The previous dictator, Gayoom, is back, and all his children are back in ministerial posts. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z When I hear stories like the sex-from-behind guy, I wonder how he got to be such a dictator in the bedroom. Porn on demand, dating apps and nonstop Internet commerce: Technology is ruining our sex lives 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z He made seven of these, with the dictator serving as executive producer. In Transit Blog: Globespotter – South Korea: Gangnam Style and 304 Films at Busan Festival 2012-10-11T15:19:45Z It's class warfare with one dictator, and it's been really fun to get back into that world. "Gossip Girl" boss: "It's class warfare with one dictator … I could write this show every 15 years" 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Fascist spies wrote back to Rome that he was being talked about as the “only possible successor to Mussolini” and advocated the assassination of the dictator. Anti-Fascism With a Human Face 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Ramsay promptly wrote back, calling his father-in-law a manipulative and controlling "dictator" – but instead of posting the letter, he published it in a newspaper. Gordon Ramsay: appetite for destruction 2012-06-08T22:01:04Z This persona is one of many versions of the same being – a variant, as he’s called in the series, of an intergalactic dictator known as Kang the Conqueror. The Jonathan Majors case: the latest celebrity trial variant where women lose 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z But isn’t he worried that many of those on the left who complain about Trump as a dictator are acting dictatorial? Monsieur Vogue Is Leaving Trumpland 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z There are a few dictators and war criminals on my list. Bianca Jagger: ‘I believe marriage is for life. We failed’ 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Following the assassination of the nation’s dictator, Park Chung-hee, in 1979, burgeoning civil unrest brought impositions of martial law, increased authoritarianism and curtailed freedom of the press. Han Kang’s ‘Human Acts’ explores the long shadow of a South Korean massacre 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Parents and caregivers should be the guides, but not the dictators, here, say teachers, librarians and, yes, this author. Worried about kids and summer reading? Three experts are here to help. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A genetically engineered super-human from the past, Khan was a dictator who controlled large swaths of Earth until he was nearly deposed. Star Trek's 10 Most Villainous Villains 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Or nationalist dictators wearing military uniforms encrusted with medals, ribbons, and badges like so many barnacles on a sinking ship of state. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Turkey condemned as incitement to violence an art installation in front of the German Chancellery that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan as a dictator, days before he is due to attend a G20 summit in Germany. Turkey protests Berlin art installation targeting Erdogan 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z A day once marked by compulsory demonstrations of national pride under the dictator François Duvalier, it is now observed as the highlight of an entire month of heritage celebrations for the Haitian diaspora. A Day to Celebrate Haiti’s Flag, and Its Foods 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Nothing about North Korea is funny, and neither is its dictator. ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z No previous Vargas Llosa protagonist – be they monomaniacal millenarian cultist, deluded dictator, gay guerrillero or utopian artist – had such a complex personality, nor could be both enigmatic and loveable. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z Hate speech is a key ingredient of the fascist dictator’s rhetorical mix, as Arendt might put it, but far from the only one. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The run-in occurred after Trump dismissed a question from another reporter about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s health, saying it was based on an “incorrect” report from CNN earlier in the week. The White House tried to move a reporter to the back of the press room, but she refused. Then Trump walked out. 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The amorous advances from Gale and Peeta mostly seem to annoy and exasperate Katniss, who has bigger fish to fry, like saving the country from an evil dictator. Teen-Heroine Smackdown: 5 Ways Katniss Is Better Than Bella 2013-11-20T10:45:36Z In the case of "No," I'm not sure, but I don't think there is any other dictator in the history of humankind that would leave power through a democratic process. The Carpetbagger: Pablo Larrain and His Unintentional Trilogy 2013-01-08T16:53:23Z Outrage over the Public Theater’s recent production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in New York City’s Central Park — one which features President Donald Trump as the titular and eventually assassinated dictator — continues. Trumpsters issue death threats to wrong theaters over “Julius Caesar” 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr Penjweny’s premise is that the memory of a dictator, whether good or bad, persists after his death. Shifting chronicle 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z At their local bourgeoisie, or their local dictator. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z A captain in the British Army during World War Two, the Egypt-born Whicker was one of the first Allied soldiers to enter Milan and filmed footage of the body of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Globe-trotting British broadcaster Whicker dead at 87 2013-07-12T16:14:32Z About forty years ago, many of the countries of South America were ruled by military dictators whose secret services organised the kidnap, torture and killing of anybody who opposed them. Letters to a Missing Person by Véronique Massenot - review 2013-02-25T12:00:00Z Trump doesn't have any problem with dictators, though. Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z With Franco gone, the political establishment—from the dictator’s ministers to the king—rebranded themselves as democrats overnight. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z As far as the comparison to a dictator, Hostin concluded: "I stand by that and I would say it again!" Sunny Hostin schools “View” co-host Abby Huntsman: The US “has pillaged and raped Puerto Ri... 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It will see the comedian play the dual roles of a goat herder and a deposed foreign dictator who finds himself lost in the US. Cohen's $20m goat 2010-04-27T10:35:00Z Its portrait of what the author called “the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators” would have been found less offensive, he wrote, “if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs.” Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z These are the values which separate democrat from dictator. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z In today’s Guatemala, criminal gangs have privatized violence and corruption: Just like the dictators, they’ve left a trail of mutilated corpses and a terrified populace in their wake. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Worm” plans to visit the North Korean dictator a second time, following the duo’s first controversial hang session in February. | Gisele’s Musical Debut, Kanye West’s Dubious Payday and More 2013-09-06T23:32:59Z The Palace of Spring, the official family residence of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, opened its gilded doors to the public in March. Best of Bucharest: Eclectic architecture, Palace of Spring 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Throughout the show the musicians appear and disappear, the screaming vocalist sometimes becoming a screaming orator, a dictator perhaps, underlining the aesthetic similarities between rock concerts and fascist rallies. Dance Review: ‘Political Mother,’ by Hofesh Shechter, at BAM 2012-10-12T22:47:29Z I prefer one benign dictator to tell me what to do. Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Fine House 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Gen. Francisco Franco, who became dictator in 1939, named Alfonso’s grandson, Juan Carlos, his successor because he believed that the prince would follow in his footsteps. Can Spain’s monarchy be saved? It’s up to King Felipe VI and his commoner queen. 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Q: What a tumultuous year it’s been, with dictators overthrown in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, and protests in the streets of major American cities. Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching 2011-10-26T18:20:00Z The image of the conductor as dictator is as much a marketing myth as a musical one, and it's a fiction, at least as it applies to today's conductor-orchestra relationships. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z Throughout history, mis- and disinformation have always been the tools of autocrats and dictators. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z While fascism presupposes a dictator ruling over a faceless crowd, Heidegger’s thoughts on being encourage accepting the inevitability of death as motivation to live for oneself, and acknowledging other people as ends rather than means. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The country’s former dictator, Saddam Hussein, was captured that December, tried for crimes against humanity and executed in 2006. Recalling when Baghdad fell to U.S. and U.K. forces 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The movie, forbidden to the general public but beloved by the former dictator and movie buff, Kim Jong Il, is sometimes used in English-language programs to train elite government officials. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z The late communist dictator Envier Hoxha banned religion in 1967, driving Albania's Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim faithful alike underground in his drive to create what he boasted was the world's first atheist state. Pope, on trip to mainly Muslim Albania, condemns Islamist militants 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z He is an aging paranoid dictator who may be losing power. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The phrase was seemingly written before the Libyan revolution exposed the dictator to be a mass murderer who ordered the bombardment and starvation of civilians before his death. 50 Cent makes another horrible pitch with 'Animal Ambition' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition in Blackpool also includes an image of dictator Saddam Hussein. Crazy golftime for Hitler: should we salute the Chapman brothers' statue? 2012-08-15T11:00:54Z It helped spawn a new genre: the “dictator novel.” Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Michaels’s input will be more as editor than dictator. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Parodies Presidential Campaign 2012-09-12T21:04:18Z The movie features such action stars as Jet Li and Jason Statham - along with cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger - in a tale of mercenaries aiming to overthrow a dictator. 'Expendables' seizes top box office spot with $35M 2010-08-15T20:31:00Z As the film draws on, it becomes clear that the only dictator in sight is Stone himself. Film review: South of the Border 2010-07-29T21:40:00Z 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 Beyond the moral question of buying poor art just because it was painted by a genocidal dictator, there is the problem of verifying whether Hitler actually made the works. Are These Paintings Really by Hitler? German Authorities Are Investigating 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z There's a dictator, secret police, and people disappear all the time – and every so often there's a revolution. The Love and Death of Caterina by Andrew Nicoll ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:07Z A backlit dictator figure sometimes appears with the band, in the same exalted position as the thrashing vocalist. Hofesh Shechter 2011-07-14T16:16:28Z The message for dictators, elected politicians and newspaper editors alike is simple. Yet another Facebook revolution: why are we so surprised? 2011-01-23T00:05:58Z It’s full of all the images that are very hard to show — everything from dictators to the toilet. James Rosenquist and Erró Discuss a Long Friendship Forged in Pop Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z In the midst of the social media-firestorm surrounding the Public Theater’s staging of “Julius Caesar” featuring the brutal stabbing of an orange-haired dictator, Donald Trump Jr. asked two questions Sunday on Twitter. Donald Trump Jr. asked, the NEA answered: No funds went to Public Theater's 'Julius Caesar' 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z If the world's dictators have no use for terrible poetry or juvenile wishes, assume the rest of us don't either. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In 1948, Dali moved back to his homeland, Spain, which was still under the iron fist of dictator Francisco Franco. 'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet 2012-11-20T14:36:08Z Benito Mussolini's personal air raid shelter is opening to the public, 74 years after Italy's former fascist dictator started building a network of fortified underground rooms to protect himself and his family from wartime bombing. Mussolini's air raid bunker to open to the public 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The first book in Collins' teen/young-adult trilogy, which portrays the cruel Hunger Games run by the repressive dictators of Panem, formerly the United States. 10 most-in-demand books at King County library 2011-12-05T01:33:04Z It is the same kind of pathos that clings to dictators' art. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z In the summer movie 'Horrible Bosses', Kevin Spacey stars as a boss who fancies himself as quite a dictator. AUDIO: 'I've never done a summer comedy' 2011-07-22T15:06:11Z Juan Marsé's Golden Girl is a witty portrait of a mediocre pro-Franco writer, who, after the death of the dictator, tortuously rewrites his own life history with the help of his unstable niece. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z "The logic of dictators and book-burners throughout history, crystallised in all its nonsensical glory: that imagination can only flourish when it’s kept inside a cage," Shannon wrote. School principal: 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings' cause brain damage 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Cain — the biblical figure who slew his brother, Abel — metamorphosizes first into a cruel Roman emperor, then a bloodthirsty medieval king, then a fascist dictator. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Spouting academic jargon like an effete dictator while wreaking havoc with a fussy sneer, this architect from hell relishes nothing more than remaking the world in his own outlandish image. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Lenin, Mussolini and Goebbels eagerly adapted the techniques of cinema to totalitarian propaganda, and other dictators have followed suit. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z He declared his admiration for Franco, the Spanish dictator, and South Africa’s apartheid regime. The ’90s Partisans Who Fueled the Rise of Grievance Conservatism 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z They were dictators, but they were not whiners. Five Rulers and One Presidential Press Conference 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “There are so many analogies between Trump and charismatic dictators,” Heaney agreed. Pussy Riot members, journalist Masha Gessen on the Putin-Trump bromance: “Shortest honeymoon in history” 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The common thread seems to be a sense of smallness or underdog status: nobody calls a jowly dictator or heavyweight boxer “feisty”. Double-edged words 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z It features a Mao-like dictator who crushes the hands that applaud him, after which the countryside is obliterated by backhoes and derricks, leaving peasants and animals wandering among skyscrapers to the sound of upbeat music. Chinese Life as Child?s Play 2011-06-04T23:45:24Z Hungary will auction off 230 communist-era relics, including a life-size bust of former Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, to benefit the victims of last month's red sludge flood. Hungary to sell communist relics for sludge fund 2010-11-22T18:16:00Z The exhibition shows Hitler's ubiquity in Nazi-era German life in everything down to playing cards with the dictator's image, yet the curator steered clear of securing any personal belongings of the dictator. Berlin exhibition views Hitler's hold on Germans 2010-10-14T15:31:00Z Tunisia saw an uprising in January that overthrew a dictator and sparked revolts around the Arab world. Angelina Jolie visits Libya-Tunisia border 2011-04-05T16:30:22Z Commuters and tourists say the statue looks more like the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini than the widely beloved pope. Vatican slams new pope John Paul sculpture 2011-05-20T12:50:09Z Or, if you’re reading this online in the year 2040, that’s Almighty Emperor Heritage, the fearsome intergalactic dictator notorious for murdering his own father at the age of 10 for disparaging him in the press. My son’s new fake laugh is terrible – a sea lion choking on a fishbone 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Some portraits of the dictator were hung in museums, where they drew the ire of human rights activists. Russian Director Presents Grand Epic of World War II 2010-05-10T12:00:00Z But accounts of Assange "bumbling" with microphones, not washing his socks and acting the office dictator is what might appear in a nasty divorce case in a legal drama on TV. WikiLeaks by David Leigh and Luke Harding - review 2011-04-10T04:29:00Z Explain brain maturation to your kid so that when you say “no, not yet,” you’re a scientist, not a ruthless dictator. The Myth of the Silent, Sulky, Horny Teenage Boy 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z You can only be a dictator in the editing room and, to some extent, when you’re writing. Tom Ford, Ben Mankiewicz and a Fashion-Film Vortex 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z She recalled initially trying to find images of dictators as children, but finding they simply didn't exist. Saatchi gallery hosts display of dictators in their youth 2013-06-17T17:37:55Z A final group of 43 students and community members played an “economics dictator game” in which they were given $5 and told they could keep it all or give some of it to a stranger. Does studying science make you a better person? 2013-03-23T20:00:00Z It did so without comment, except that one of the accompanying illustrations showed Napoleon the dictator wearing the trademark black horn-rimmed spectacles of Zimbabwe's own leader. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z He said the German film "Downfall," starring Bruno Ganz in a chronicle of Hitler's last days, had given him insight into the dictator and put more of a human face on him. Von Trier regrets Hitler remarks, likes new title 2011-05-20T16:01:13Z “I am the president of the jury, not the dictator,” del Toro told a news conference in Venice on Wednesday, when asked if he might be tempted to help his friend win the top prize. Del Toro promises no favors for amigo Cuaron at Venice Film Festival 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z The comedian feigned surprise before comparing the U.S. president to an African dictator. “This is the kind of thing dictators do”: Here’s how late-night TV reacted to James Comey’s firing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z “The Interview” stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as a producer and talk-show host who land an interview with the North Korean dictator and are then asked by the CIA to assassinate him. North Korea’s take on new US movie: “Act of war” 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z We are fascinated by serial killers and murderous dictators, torn between the obvious fact that they are human beings like ourselves and the conviction that in some fundamental way they must be different. Heinrich Himmler, family man: Why “The Decent One” is the most haunting documentary I’ve ever seen 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Still haunted by the legend of a vampire count and the legacy of a communist dictator, Romania is complex — with an epic history, a multifaceted ethnic mix, and an unusually rich cultural heritage. Bucharest, Romania: Little Paris of the East 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Hundreds of neckties hang on either side of the Nixon photo, and Mr. Stone joked that he has more shoes than Imelda Marcos — whose husband, the Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, he once advised. Roger Stone Rides Donald Trump’s Well-Tailored Coattails 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The dictator’s military green uniform is unmistakable, but before you read too much into it, the story’s protagonist challenges the dictator and wins, only to become another militant ruler. Improvisation Is the Heart of Cuban Animation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z When Don Draper toppled a dictator Topics: , Chile, Pinochet, political ads, dictator, resistance, , Close your eyes and picture America’s most famous ad man, the fictional Don Draper of the cable TV hit Mad Men. When Don Draper toppled a dictator 2013-03-15T17:10:00Z When Skylark begins to buy into Kim’s propaganda, “The Interview” becomes a sharp, if never entirely serious, satire on media manipulation as it’s practiced by dictators and movie stars alike. Review: ‘The Interview’ has some laughs and makes some points but isn’t as edgy as its reputation suggests 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z So I’ve marched onward through my maternity leave, constantly wearing, carrying or pushing my dimpled dictator. A new mom regains her fitness groove, one step at a time 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z But those decisions haven’t always been received with enthusiasm, particularly among academics and artists who have long criticized some Western depictions of Africa as a place of death, disease and dictators. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The film, which opens Dec. 25 in the U.S., follows two television figures who become part of a plot to kill North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-Un. Hacker message demands Sony not show 'The Interview' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Otto, whose father is the dictator of an unspecified Eastern European country, is eager to acquire a gizmo that will bring him world-dominating powers and paternal approval. ‘F9’ Review: Objects in Rearview Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Democracy--especially a republic--may be inefficient and frustrating but it is specifically designed that way as a means of stopping dictators. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z “Thoughts are like little dictators telling us what to do and we often listen to them,” said Mr. Goldstein. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z He was, as he liked to say, Kayak’s dictator. George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96 2010-09-04T05:04:00Z And yet, history’s most destructive dictators “struck many of their countrymen as men of limited ability, education and imagination.” Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “You can be a dictator in your company. You can be a dictator in your own life and destroy it.” Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Sinister bureaucrats come to mind, corporate sharks and dictators, crooked cops. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z In 1938, the academy feared Italy’s Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, might follow suit. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Newsreels of Il Duce at his World War II peak demonstrate the dictator's uncanny talent for crowd control. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z "Yes, they were dictators — but in a sort of benevolent way," he says, laughing. Joshua Weilerstein, a recent Dudamel fellow, is back in L.A. as maestro 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z The Assads, as a very modern and cosmopolitan dictator power couple, seem to prize P.R. and media experience in their inner circle. What it takes to be in Vogue 2012-06-11T14:58:00Z Raghad Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator's eldest daughter, lives in exile in Jordan. Saddam Hussein's daughter seeking publisher for his memoirs 2012-05-28T15:06:56Z Which isn’t to say that high culture will naturally lift you out of barbarism; dictators can love the ballet as much as democrats. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Starting in the early 1930s, Portugal and Madeira endured the fascist dictator António Salazar for 36 years, and his successors persisted for a short time after he died. The rain forest destination Americans are missing out on 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The opening breezes through archival footage from the era, dossiers on dictators and newspaper clips. Review: ‘Olvidados’ Revisits Rightist Terror in South America 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Immediately the brain hormones of adrenaline and cortisol bathe the cortex, the very centre of our thinking; the amygdala, dictator of feelings, dispatches the triumvirate actions of freezing, fleeing, fighting. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z It was managed through the war years by Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred Wagner, a close friend of the Nazi dictator. ArtsBeat: Swastika Tattoo Prompts a Casting Change at Bayreuth 2012-07-23T17:25:50Z Casting the outlandish Republican front-runner in the quintessential typecast of a ruthless African dictator, Noah claims Trump could actually be running as America’s African president. Africa is not a country — and it’s not all misery and poverty, either: What America can learn from Trevor Noah 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The emphasis is on a single dictator, the bawdy, tyrannical third emperor of Rome, Caligula. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z It said the main villain in both is a General Garza, a military dictator with a notorious human rights record. Stallone sued, accused of stealing screenplay 2011-10-25T17:27:03Z The plan is to unite the districts and rebel together against the dictator in the Capitol. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - review 2012-08-16T14:00:00Z Zoey is the target of Aladeen’s abuse, and also of the film’s scattershot misogyny, which is, like the dictator himself, conveniently disguised. Movie Review: ?The Dictator,? With Sacha Baron Cohen 2012-05-15T16:30:09Z For $1,500, a museum is offering salvation from the world's end in former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's underground bunker in central Moscow - with a 50 percent refund if nothing happens. Global doomsday hot spots draw believers, revelers 2012-12-20T18:48:14Z One minute they're expounding the ballet's underlying theme, the life-changing power of art, the next they're off on a tangent: everything from the fall of dictators to Noël Coward and the potency of cheap music. De Frutos and Pet Shop Boys reach for the moon 2011-03-09T21:29:01Z A monument erected to a dictator’s glory becomes a lucrative tourist destination. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z It isn’t unheard-of for a musical to tell the story of a dictator’s wife, but this one, with songs by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, is distinctly focused on its subject’s dancing habits. Everybody Dance Now! ‘Here Lies Love’ Dictates Your Moves. 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z In case people have forgotten, Trump is the racist wannabe dictator further destroying our country's already damaged reputation and ruining the lives of scores of children in concentration camps at the border. The Joe Biden wokeness paradox: Can black voters support him and also hold him accountable? 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z A Bank of Japan policymaker praised Adolf Hitler's economic policies on Thursday, but said they enabled the Nazi dictator to do "horrible" things to the world. Japanese central banker praises Hitler's economic policies 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Easy to believe that the ghost of the long-dead dictator still haunts the room. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Marguerite Carré was the queen of quality control, a dictator of the workrooms and terror of the petits mains who churned out Dior’s romantic confections. Once Upon a Time 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Africa has no monopoly on dictators but the play acquires fresh urgency in its new setting. Julius Caesar – review 2012-06-07T00:13:00Z After all, it's not easy to empathize with the wife of a dictator, a woman known for her unabashed opulence. Review: David Byrne revisits disco in new work 2013-04-24T02:11:13Z Khan, originally played by Ricardo Montalbán, is charismatic, highly intelligent and manipulative, the "best" of the superhuman dictators who nearly destroyed the planet. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Hailed by Serbian nationalists as their champion against Catholic Croats and Bosnian and Kosovar Albanian Muslims, Milosevic was seen as a brutal dictator by the West. Milosevic - the musical - plays in Kosovo 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z It has been an extraordinary turnaround for a country that only five years ago was being ruled by one of the world’s most brutal and callous dictators, Than Shwe. All change, or not 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Politically, too, Borges was either naïve or callous, actually traveling to Chile to receive a medal from its dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Review: ‘Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, the Untold Story’ Mike Jeffries, by all accounts, continues to make progress on his quest to become one of the worst people in human history who wasn’t a genocidal dictator or a hypocritical religious huckster. I sold my body (and nearly my soul) to Abercrombie 2014-05-05T00:00:00Z The former dictator of Panama is not happy with how he looks in the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops II video game. This Former Dictator Is Suing the 'Call of Duty' Makers 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Is it just a coincidence that as China feels like a threat to the U.S. economy a North Korean dictator, supported by the Chinese government, seems like an easy target to make fun of? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Prowling the stage for 15 minutes, Andrew trashes mask mandates, describes Cuomo and Hochul as “dictators,” promises to repeal bail reform, and shouts, “Stop the war on cops!” Andrew Giuliani is test-driving his father’s legacy in New York 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Buttoning on a colonel's medal-strewn khaki jacket, he seems to metamorphose before our eyes into the future kleptomaniac dictator. A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half – review 2013-07-20T23:05:43Z “Usually I am a bit of a dictator about these kind of things,” she said. Possessed: Muriel Brandolini?s Love of Jewelry - Possessed 2011-09-23T22:28:23Z She was supposedly Stalin's favorite pianist, and legend has it that a disc of her playing a Mozart piano concerto was on the dictator's record player when he was found dead. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Foreign meddling, the lack of a democratic tradition, a humiliating American occupation and cold-war support of a brutal dictator all figure in a scholar’s well-written analysis. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z He’s interviewed more than 200 people, and his closely observed accounts of dictators’ increasingly sly methods to control their populations are haunting and dispiriting. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z The home of a dictator is, he notes, "a world entirely without irony". Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z The opera unfolds during the culmination of the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, as Julius Caesar moves toward Utica in northern Africa and confrontation with Cato, the last holdout against Rome’s new dictator. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Its pages are filled with treatises on tyrannical dictators and the horrors they wrought; and yet, it appears beside the female empowerment reads at your local bookstore. ‘The kids, they love Madeleine Albright’: How a veteran diplomat got turned into a millennial icon 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z And as support for far-right groups grows across Europe, the survivors say it is vital that younger generations learn about their suffering under Antonio Salazar, Europe’s longest serving right-wing dictator. Portugal hopes to preserve memory of fascist era with fortress museum 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Did you know that the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo transported a group of Negro League baseball players to his country in 1937 to field a team that would win the country’s league championship? The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z She gives them a poison, which will kill the dictator 12 hours after contact. What is The Interview really like? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “I know we said Trump was an African dictator,” Noah said. “This is the kind of thing dictators do”: Here’s how late-night TV reacted to James Comey’s firing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z "Tyrant", which airs in the United States next month, portrays the Americanized son of an Arab dictator who, while visiting his family, finds himself in the midst of an uprising. "Homeland" co-creator wants Israel to be prime spot for U.S. TV shows 2014-05-13T14:24:45Z And yet … and yet he is a fundamentally decent man who does not seem to be in the thrall of foreign dictators. Perspective | Who would be a better president than the current one? For starters, my cat. 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Hamilton’s story portrays the street turmoil that followed dictator Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in early 2011 and provides a peek into the minds of a group of left-liberal youth. Activists love and lose in the Cairo novel, 'The City Always Wins' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z He was also inspired by a private train built for the Yugoslav dictator Tito with large dining cars, a conference room car and lavish sleeping carriages. Designing the Train Sections for Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z A few years ago a restaurant named Hitler's Cross opened in the suburbs of Mumbai complete with posters of the dictator and swastikas for decor. Hitler film exposes India's interest in dictator 2010-06-25T11:46:00Z A number of dictators have quoted Trump’s attacks on journalists as a legitimation for suppressing dissent in their respective countries. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z “Rabin” shows a democratically elected leader not merely criticized and disrespected but demonized, depicted as a dictator and a monster, a traitor, an alien and an enemy of his people. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z He uses florid language, like “beautiful” and “perfect,” and says he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “fell in love.” Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z On the death of General Franco in 1975, Joan Miró was asked what he had done to promote opposition to the dictator, who had ruled Spain for nearly 40 years. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z This year's rendition of Julius Caesar drew criticism over its portrayal of the titular Roman dictator, which bore striking similarities to President Donald Trump. Michael Moore Gives $10,000 to 'Julius Caesar' Producers 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The story runs on a local version of the dictator’s big lie. Richard Brody: Women Onscreen in Two Film-Noir Retrospectives 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Images of the dictators “were not allowed to be shown outside North Korea, except in the embassies — and they are certainly not in private hands,” he said. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z I won't venture guesses on how Washington would view any other Trump policies, but it beggars belief to think he wouldn't be alarmed about the possibility of Trump or any other president becoming a dictator. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Climate scientists now, evidently, share something in common with dictators and mass murderers. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z And then, when the dictator least expects it, Skylark pounces with relentless, incisive queries. The one way Oliver Stone actually beat the strongman in “The Putin Interviews” 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Discussing the matter in a calmer fashionlast night, Campbell said it was not her fault she found herself at the same dinner as the dictator. Naomi Campbell reveals extreme beauty regime on Oprah Winfrey slot 2010-05-04T19:40:00Z The actor became internationally renowned for his 2004 portrayal of the dictator of Germany in the final days inside his Berlin bunker. Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z It states, “By reading this you agree to overthrow dictators.” New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The United States was debating a military strike against a Middle Eastern dictator. The New Crossfire Parties Like It’s 2003 2013-09-10T14:06:26Z Taft calls Teddy a dictator; Teddy calls Taft a pinhead. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z By evoking Mussolini’s thrusting chin, I don’t mean to imply that Trump is eager to become a military dictator. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The Spanish attitude toward the late dictator is not like the anachronistic pride of the French for Napoleon, whose militarism they would not now condone in a leader; it is nothing but revulsion. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z The first time she met Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator, she was ushered into his bunker’s underground bedroom, where he appeared before her wearing a padded flight suit and lizard-skin slippers, and announced, “I am Gaddafi!” A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The artistic excesses of the Gaddafi house style more than live up to the image of the dictator as Neronian monster, now brought down with our military aid. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's art showed the grotesque symptoms of dictatorship 2011-08-26T13:25:04Z Immediately afterwards Bulgakov heard a voice with a distinct Georgian accent – it was indeed the dictator on the line. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z It looked like the embodiment of the 19th-century dictator Porfirio Díaz’s quip, “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” In Baja, Camping, Cactus and Cocktails 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Power Bad taste, bad dictator … Edward James Olmos in In the Time of the Butterflies. Reel history | In the Time of the Butterflies: feisty but it doesn't really fly 2010-03-18T09:30:00Z In the aftermath of the Arab spring and the French intervention in Mali, the film provides a stark warning of the dangers of supporting benevolent dictators. Burkina Faso stages Africa's film festival with a conscience 2013-03-01T11:24:52Z A particularly delicious attack on the French comes in his recounting of his 1983 meeting with Saddam, during which the dictator said that France "understood the Iraqi view". Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z “I’ve been called everything from a mass murderer, dictator, arsonist and a whole list of crimes against humanity,” he said. Civil War re-enactors mark 150th anniversary of Battle of Atlanta 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Hitler and Mussolini made decisive contributions of arms and men to the future dictator, General Francisco Franco, a man who boasted of preferring blood and bayonets to “hypocritical elections”. The opening act 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I want to argue that there are important lessons to be mined historically regarding how we examine Trump’s connections to a number of ruthless dictators and political demagogues. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Uplifting kitty Hitler news of the day: Despite looking like one of history's most ruthless dictators reincarnated as a cat, Kitler has found a home. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-08-01T22:45:00Z They agreed, to me, to be a dictator for five years. ArtsBeat: RZA Explains What It Would Take to Reunite the Wu-Tang Clan 2012-10-17T12:00:15Z Q. How does the North Korean dictator refer to the American president and first lady? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z His explanation of how citizens are using fresh, bespoke tools against modern dictators is almost absurdly inspiring. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z "It's the logic of all dictatorships – any dictator would do likewise against the people." Syrian authors condemn 'savage' Homs bombardment 2012-02-09T12:15:17Z Berlusconi is taking one step after another to become a dictator in passing laws which are in conflict with democracy. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z I invoked dictators' artistic fantasies to suggest the level of badness and self-delusion in Hirst's figurative paintings, but the bronze woman of Ilfracombe invites a more direct comparison with the art of totalitarian regimes. Damien Hirst's new statue is a dangerous monstrosity 2012-10-11T14:23:22Z Walters, sitting at camera right, quite close to her subject, extracted the kinds of juicy revelations that became her trademark, be they from a president or dictator, a movie star or murderer. The Best of Barbara Walters 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Films from the 1930s show a young Mr. Speer playing on the veranda of Hitler’s villa while the dictator looks on. Albert Speer Jr., Architect and Son of Hitler Confidant, Dies at 83 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z He plays an undercover reporter sent to assassinate the North Korean dictator, as does his co-star Franco, who reportedly netted $6.5 million for the movie. Seth Rogen's and James Franco's Earnings Leaked 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z When the film was announced in June 2010 there was concern the Nazi dictator might be portrayed in a positive light. Gandhi to Hitler panned by critics 2011-08-01T15:07:48Z He was a vicious anti-Semite who inspired Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, a frequent attendee at the Bayreuth Festival. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z He was busy installing a dictator in Egypt, the name of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was actually a very good dictator for Egypt. Q&A with Stewart Copeland: Drumming with the Police, setting Sting free and investigating his dad’s time in the CIA 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Neill and Mr. Mills would go on to create the popular series Nemesis the Warlock, about a fire-breathing alien demon — the hero — in battle against a fanatically religious human dictator. Kevin O’Neill, Comics Artist With a Taste for the Lurid, Dies at 69 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z What the novel lacks in plot it makes up for with grotesque, ruthless details, following an aging dictator as he terrorizes his unnamed Caribbean country. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z He has cozied up to dictators who throw reporters in prison or arrange for their deaths. Perspective | If Trump doesn’t condone violence against journalists, he should stop inspiring it 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z "Revolution" in Cuba is a reference to the uprising that toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power 51 years ago. Cuba's Silvio Rodriguez set to play Carnegie Hall 2010-05-06T16:37:00Z Another highly recommended national TV treasure was Vic and Bob's pilot The Weekenders, a simple story of a meat festival staffed by the Human League's Phil Oakey, featuring African dictators and jars of animal seepage. Shooting Stars: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-08-05T23:07:45Z The series featured Whicker reporting on the unusual and bizarre, interviewing all types of people from millionaires and monks to gangsters and dictators. Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87 2013-07-12T16:18:54Z His vulnerability, though, heightens the seething anger of You Lust, which transforms the frontman from amiable and self-professed weirdo to alarming dictator. The Flaming Lips – review 2013-05-22T17:23:36Z Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican novelist and a former ambassador to France, accused Sarkozy of behaving like a "dictator of a banana republic" in mixing cultural relations with political, judicial and diplomatic ones. Nicolas Sarkozy triggers row with Mexico over French kidnapper 2011-02-17T18:32:55Z War was on a human level; war was the civilian lives lost, where people are suffering and dictators are killing with impunity. Rosamund Pike: War correspondent Marie Colvin “was not fearless” 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z "I have strong ideas, but I'm not going to be a dictator about them. I don't feel that's a good way to work. I'm very interested in the psychology of orchestras." Joshua Weilerstein, a recent Dudamel fellow, is back in L.A. as maestro 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Anyway, since when has anyone become an all-powerful dictator by allying with intellectuals? Reel history | In the Time of the Butterflies: feisty but it doesn't really fly 2010-03-18T09:30:00Z It is the last book in the world that you would expect a nascent fascist dictator to write. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “With Trump’s rhetoric, it would embolden despots and dictators who are looking for an excuse” to restrict press rights or endanger journalism. How the Committee to Protect Journalists broke with tradition to protest Trump 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein's Zabiba and the King was the first book in my library of dictator literature. Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z The rest of this week’s episode hinged on the imperious state of the colonia under Alejandro who, like all good dictators, does not do well when faced with doubt. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z A decade ago the son of Libya's then still very much alive dictator showed sentimental paintings of desert scenes in an exhibition sponsored by fawning business allies. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z As the beach’s owner and benevolent dictator, he’s made two rules: There will never be more than 30 outsiders on the property at any one time, and never more than 10 in the water. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z “The Burning Shores” begins with the dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, surely one of the most flamboyantly eccentric rulers ever to commandeer a country. Why Libya Continues to Burn 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s something that every dictator cultivates, this idea that there is someone even scarier. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “The best aesthetic descriptor of Trump’s look, I’d argue, is dictator style.” Draft Executive Order Would Give Trump a New Target: Modern Design 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Hussein was certainly a brutal dictator, but the man described by Mr. Nixon was not on a mission to blow up the world, as George W. Bush’s administration had claimed to justify the invasion. Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Giggling at Saddam Hussein’s political writings on the pink silk sheets of an Iraqi guesthouse provided for them by the dictator himself. Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Even though Wagner died half a century before Hitler rose to power, the Nazi dictator was a fervent admirer and drew on the composer's writings in his own theories on Germanic racial purity. Israeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine 2011-07-24T17:01:54Z Commenting subsequently on Donald Trump’s response to the unrest and demonstrations, Lee said it was a sign the president was “a gangster, trying to be a dictator”. Spike Lee: send us your questions for the director of Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The Rice album aside, those seeking an insight from the items looted from Gaddafi's compound into the dictator's state of mind may be struck by a faint sense of deja vu. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z The film contains many images and moments — of dwarves, miners, dictators, clowns, amputees — that outrageously mix the ridiculous and the tender. Alejandro Jodorowsky's renewal continues with 'The Dance of Reality' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Once the United States deposes the evil dictator or captures the enemy capital, complications arise. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Real dictators have to pay artists to mythologise them. Margaret Thatcher never liked her country 2013-04-14T07:00:00Z She starts madly purging, like one of those old Soviet dictators cleansing the politburo after a coup. This Life: Take Back the Trash 2011-03-04T19:17:02Z In 1991, after 20 years in Munich, Divko returns to his native village in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the triumphal pomposity of an ousted dictator staging a comeback. Movie Review: Danis Tanovic?s ?Cirkus Columbia,? Set in Bosnia 2012-02-16T23:59:02Z There's no point being a dictator and saying 'I want it this way' because who cares? Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z “You can be a dictator in your family,” he replies. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z In a Chicago Symphony season brochure he is quoted as saying, “I believe the music director should be a leader, a father, a brother, but not a dictator.” Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z At one point, Chaplin, playing a Jewish barber who is mistaken for a fascist dictator, delivers a monologue to the audience. Pete Davidson’s Congressional Visitor and Earnest Address on “Saturday Night Live” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The other cooks in this collection are more clear-eyed about “their” dictators. Review | What’s it like to cook for a dictator? A new book takes us inside the kitchens of Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot and more. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z When the larger-than-life statue was first unveiled in May 2011, it was widely criticized by passers-by as looking more like Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini than the beloved Polish pope. Revised statue of John Paul II inaugurated in Rome 2012-11-19T12:46:04Z Khan is very much a dictator in the way he runs his crew, and Kirk is — I use the word very cautiously — a diplomat who takes his crew into further consideration. It Came From the ’80s 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Jessica Reel was ordered to assassinate a dictator, but she executed someone else. Review: `The Hit' is a winner from David Baldacci 2013-04-24T17:18:09Z |
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