Word: bamba
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...Bamba...
...movie has received all the hype of being a major cinematic event. It is not. Instead, La Bamba is proof--for anybody who still needs it--that the 1980s are frighteningly similar to the 1950s...
...government told it, the principal plotters were Evariste Kimba, who had been the Congo's last civilian Premier, and onetime (until 1964) Finance Minister Emmanuel Bamba. Together with two other ex-Ministers they were accused of trying to get the Leopoldville army garrisons to rise against Mobutu. The attempt failed, charged the regime, only because the officers with whom they were plotting remained secretly loyal to Mobutu-and the authorities arrested them hours before the uprising was supposed to have started...
...Communist-led band descended upon anti-Communists in the town of Cliza and touched off a four-day battle that left 100 dead. On the second day U.S. Ambassador (and former Math Professor) Carl Strom was heckled and stoned during and after a nonpolitical scientific lecture at Cocha-bamba's San Simón University...
...exploitees, has been reading all the "fumetti" for years, but of all the heroes, the White Sheik is her favorite. On her honeymoon in Rome with a healthy Italian villager, she takes off in search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake...