Word: bogeymen
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...enforce his rule, Duvalier created the thuggish Tonton Macoutes, Creole for bogeymen. Swaggering through the streets, they terrorized the population, extorted money and tortured and killed untold numbers. In January 1971, Papa Doc decreed that his tubby son Jean-Claude, 19, would succeed him in the presidency. Haitians were called to the polls to ratify the succession of the ) moon-faced playboy, whose interests seemed to revolve around women and fast cars. According to government figures, Baby Doc won the plebiscite handily...
...does write horror fiction. He writes damned good horror fiction. Rabid dogs, haunted hotels, telekinetic teenagers, and other assorted bogeymen constitute the bizarre realm in which King operates. But Stephen King writes best-selling horror fiction, and that, to many, makes him a schlock writer...
With Different Seasons the latest in the author's string of best-sellers, King puts forth the effort. Technically, the book is a collection of four novellas, each written in separate periods following the completion of specific novels. In this book, King cuts the bogeymen, employs a first-person narrative, and restricts the imagery...
...course, this Administration has never been much on complexity. Like the tourists who look out of their Jamaican hotel windows and see bone-white beaches but not the burgeoning squalor of shantytown, Ronald Reagan looks south and sees only Cuban bogeymen,--not a region with a history of colonization, racial injustice, and monoculture...
...young son shaving together is so old that it evokes more humor than emotion, yet Simon uses it, as if such banality could evoke even a sigh from the audience, never mind a tear. The same holds for the scenes with the recording executives; they are such cardboard bogeymen, and Jonah is such a stereotypically humble artist/hero, that the tensions between them cannot be depicted realistically. The scenes are simply unbelievable, and without realism in its favor, a movie like this doesn't have a chance...