Word: bins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle on the Boulevard. The mortar shells and the ultimatum were fired at the struggling new state of South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million) by a war lord named General Le Van Vien-a man who used to be a river pirate and now runs the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen), one of South Viet Nam's exotic alliances of political and religious sects, with its own private army of 8,000 uniformed men. The general often seems like an inclusive version of Murder Inc. and the police force, for his Binh Xuyen controls Saigon's prostitutes...
Each day the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen) pays the Vietnamese government about $10,000 in "taxes," and gets in return the monopoly control of Saigon's brothels, gambling casinos and opium dens (which are called "clinics of disintoxication"). The Binh Xuyen's enterprises are one of the main sources of revenue for Chief of State Bao Dai, who lives in luxury on the French Riviera. The Binh Xuyen is greatly feared in Saigon: its policemen recently beat a Vietnamese army contingent in pitched street fighting. The Binh Xuyen is also respected for its efficiency...
...have longge bin of a mynde that Holly Woode mayhap shold tayke a powddre...
...that she knew was that he worked at a "metallurgical laboratory" (where no metallurgists worked). She asked no questions. She brought up her children, kept her overworked husband comfortable, laughed at him affectionately when laughter was in order (once he buried a "treasure" of currency in a coal bin). But she felt the excitement around her grow and the mystery deepen...
...since John Barrymore first hauled on his buskins has a young actor's fire brought such a light to so many critics' eyes. Almost all his Broadway performances have won rave reviews ("our most memorable young actor"), and he has backed the cinema critics into the adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like a salamander into stone...