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An essay argues that Boris Yeltsin is power-hungry, irresponsible, and unstable and that we should stop cutting him slack.
Besides, even more telling than the views of academics are the images of Nixon in popular culture, where he remains resentful, paranoid, and ruthlessly power-hungry.
Yet another adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel produced by Barry Sonnenfeld ( Get Shorty , Out of Sight ). This one centers on a power-hungry rural judge (Beau Bridges) who happily doles out lengthy sentences--a "redneck Judge Judy" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics call it the next Twin Peaks , citing its twisting plot lines, eccentric characters, and black humor.
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas fulminated on the House floor that "NATO is starting to resemble a power-hungry imperialist army," and he claimed that "the crisis in Kosovo poses no security threat to American people, our territory or our welfare."
For this, Dobson and Bauer denounced him as a power-hungry sellout.