Quixotic, he swung from morbid self-pity to rigid authority over his crews and himself.
The Soviet Union was policed by a single centralized police force, the Militia, that operated in the various territorial divisions of the country under the rigid authority of the Ministry of the Interior MVDD).
Dale Wasserman's script, adapted from Ken Kesey's 1962 cult novel, is filled with opportunities for lusty Steppenwolf-style antics: guys playing basketball in their underwear, a pharmaceutical cocktail party, electric shock treatments and plenty of brawls with rigid authority figures.
Hicks has always had an interest in Greek drama, and could see that its ritualistic aspects chimed well with those of capoeira, as did The Bacchae's invocation of strangers, disruptive outside elements and rigid authority.
There are rigid authority figures, normally parents, who must be accommodated, witty and wily slaves who help engineer the plot, and sometimes long-lost children who show up just in time for a happy ending.
"I think his personal dream is to demonstrate that a liberal and enlightened market economy with the help of civil institutions can be successfully combined with more strict and rigid authority in the system of power," she said.
Censorship in China conjures the image of rigid, unsmiling authority, but that disapproving scowl can give way to a different expression — and not always a consistent one.
Perhaps most interestingly, Zimbardo found that he himself, in the role of prison superintendent, rapidly underwent a transformation: "I began to talk, walk and act like a rigid institutional authority figure more concerned about the security of "my prison" than the needs of the young men entrusted to my care as a psychological researcher".
After criticism that May's debate was too rigid, the electoral authorities came up with a new formula to allow more interjection and argument.
Strong words from women who have been warned by the Vatican, who are bucking the most rigid of all authorities and challenging the most patriarchal and hierarchical of all systems.
Certainly the more rigid the regulatory authority conferred on an agency has much to do with its ability to survive changes in the social, economic, commercial and scientific forces that shape its environment.
