Word: brigand
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...world in which an überstud with refined tastes (the right car, martini recipe, cigarette) also accessorized by bedding beautiful, willing, duplicitous women; it's no coincidence that 007 and Playboy were the prime male icons of the Eisenhower-Kennedy era. Bond occasionally engaged in fisticuffs with a brigand, but that was just a different kind of workout. As played by Sean Connery and Roger Moore from the '60s through the '80s, Bond greeted each new threat to his life with an upper-class smile...
...Centuries before La Cosa Nostra was heard of in the U.S., the Mafia operated?even as it does today?as a brigand government in much of Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to avoid just such oppression as the Mafia offers, a few among them formed a new Mafia in the new country. In the crowded 'Little Italys' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential...
...another crushed in disillusion, and held two dead loved ones in her arms. The pace never slackens. The driver who is to take Madhu and the child to their new home steers her into a monsoon and steals her money. Enter Kamal (Rajesh Khanna), driving by; he overtakes the brigand, engages in a hilariously speeded-up river- and mud-fight, and takes Madhu to his place to dry off. Turns out Kamal was the dead husband?s best friend, and that this noble fellow is a heavy toper. He?s been drowning his sorrows since his wedding day, when...
...this style. You can also reserve an evening in a crude wooden watchtower called a machaan, where you can stealthily observe a watering hole as the creatures of the night go on the prowl. With luck, you might spot a tiger. Without it, you might just see the brigand Veerappan as he hauls you away into the leafy deeps to be held for ransom. Some vacation...
...Bush presidency to the Middle East. "Ken's arguments, although caricatured, crystallize today's issues," says Banks. "He wants a better world, and it's important to stay idealistic. Besides, art must sometimes be an irritant to stimulate debate." Debate is at the heart of French filmmaker Alain Brigand's latest project, 11'09'01. He asked 11 directors to film self-contained segments lasting precisely 11 min. 9 sec. each plus one frame (a restriction that one participant, Indian director Mira Nair, called "French conceptual bulls__t"). Brigand describes the project - which also includes segments by Sean Penn...