Word: bandido
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...seem quite so much like a strategic dichotomy, an either-or choice that the U.S. must make now and live with for decades. Instead, the chiefs want to ; keep all options open. When necessary, they want the U.S. to be the Lone Ranger who can go after a bandido like Manuel Noriega of Panama. But whenever possible, they would prefer to play the sheriff who leads a posse against the likes of Saddam Hussein...
...Penetration by the above named, among others, of a bandido lair in Mexico where everyone needs a shave and lessons in the safe handling of firearms...
Duck, You Sucker is even more frivolous than the usual Leone. The action, of which there is the customary abundance, takes place in Mexico during the waning days of the revolution. Rod Steiger swaggers through various robberies as a goodhearted, simple-minded bandido whose fondest dream is to knock over the bank in Mesa Verde. He gets his chance when he meets with James Coburn, who plays a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. How Coburn got from the Emerald Isle to Mexico, or why he is a fugitive, is left totally unexplained in the best Leone tradition. Coburn does...
...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
Whatever else he was, Pancho Villa was a born leader. In the revolution of 1910, the black-tempered peasant led the first uprising against President Porfirio Díaz, later joined that other hard-riding bandido, Emiliano Zapata, against the government of the opportunist Venustiano Carranza. Along the way, Villa's cavalry of bearded, wild-eyed "Dorados" (Golden Ones) shot up and looted villages, left the bodies of priests strung on barbed wire; they later defied the U.S. by killing 19 in a raid on a New Mexico border town, eluding a punitive force led by General John...