Word: bandit
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...contrast a land of smiles, health and purpose-if not of freedom. True, life is regimented, spare and hard by any standard, and the country's ancient cultural heritage has been all but obliterated; but no longer do beggars, prostitutes and addicts throng the cities or bandit gangs roam the countryside. Most fundamentally, perhaps, the deeply rooted Confucian attitudes of docility and resignation have virtually disappeared in favor of Mao's Promethean notion that the human will can solve all problems...
Poisoned Flies. On the upper reaches of the Hassayampa, a dark region of the mind, lurks Ratanous, called Ratnose. He is ageless and probably deathless, a one-eyed bandit leader, hunter, torturer, demon and figment. (An anagram of Ratanous, possibly relevant, is "our Satan.") The father has confused memories of skirmishes with Ratnose in the days when he fished the Hassayampa as a young man. His mind is seized and shaken by the mad notion of stalking Ratnose once more, beating him down, killing...
...here. America is in a crisis, he announces gravely: The crazed Arabs, endowed only with anatomical fortuity, have put their thumb astride our jugular. These are not familiar, white-skinned Europeans, polite Belgians or Dutchmen, who will calmly accede to our reasonable requests. These are berobed bedouin upstarts, mustachioed bandit sheiks, out to black-mail Uncle Sam till his back--or at least his foreign policy--is up against the wall...
...actions of all of the characters are controlled by the omnicient Dr. Ma-Gico (Sierra Bandit), who calls each scene before it occurs, directs every action, no matter how perverse, and who even, in an ultimate expression of her power, controls the other actors with strings, driving them into a frenzy of jerky movements. Ma-Gico is the only character who is capable of moving freely throughout most of the play; the other characters either do as they are told or echo from the sidelines the actions and words of the principals of each scene, often creating extremely comic exchanges...
...bandit armed with a pistol entered the New York City office of a woman psychiatrist not long ago and robbed her. As he backed out the door he fired a shot, grazing the doctor on the head. Thrown into severe shock, she was taken to an emergency ward where the doctor on duty, trying to learn whether there had been brain damage, asked her: "Whom do Ehrlichman and Haldeman hate most...