Many young functionaries in the Qaddafi regime were sent to Europe with instructions to execute Libyan dissidents in exile.
We are in Koons' studio in Manhattan, a huge, temperature-controlled hangar where more than 130 young functionaries execute items on the artist's to-do list, for example: "Seated Metallic Ballerina, finish color boundary".
The two directors depicted by Assayas are two young functionaries of the arts whose wan incarnations and dull ideas are, above all, reminders of Norman Mailer's dictum that the one character no novelist can imagine is a novelist greater than himself.
The young functionary prided himself on handling the mogul's account, and was pathetically eager to please him.
With the disgraced Victor Ponta under indictment, and party leader Liviu Dragnea facing jail time for his second set of corruption and influence-peddling charges, a pliable young functionary named Sorin Grindeanu was installed as prime minister.
In one of the book's surprises, Ms. Salinger writes that her father arrested a young Nazi Party functionary, Sylvia, then married her.
But its story — about a young government functionary resolved to expose unsavory state secrets — feels timelier than ever in the wake of revelations that the National Security Agency has been monitoring the cellphone and Internet use of ordinary Americans.
(Manohla Dargis) 'CHAIN' (No rating, 99 minutes) Jem Cohen's sad, lyrical evocation of the homogeneity of the global landscape views it through the eyes of two young women: a Japanese corporate functionary researching theme parks in the United States and a glum temp worker eking out a living in shopping malls and motels.
Mr. Tavernier takes us into the squalid housing projects in which many of Daniel's students live and records the bureaucratic boilerplate that, in the mouths of well-meaning but self-protective functionaries and politicians, reduces young lives to jargon and statistics.
Both the baby, who becomes a young man, Jeremy Rick Millerr), and the German functionary, Thomas Hans Piesbergenn), who becomes (somewhat improbably) a neurosurgeon, play major, conflicting roles in Ada's life.
In some cuts, Stepok overhears his father's planning and sneaks out in the night to inform on him; in others, the local Communist Party functionary breastfeeds Stepok's young sister; in still others, Stepok's father says after shooting his son, "They took you from me, but I did not give you to them.
