Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reprieve for the three men. No doubt existed about the guilt of the men, two of whom, James Dhlamini and Victor Mlambo, had murdered a white farmer in a Mau Mau-style ambush and the third of whom, Duly Shadrack, had axed a native chief to death in the bush. But by blatantly ignoring the mercy move of Queen Elizabeth, to whom they still claimed to profess fealty, the leaders of the runaway colony also applied the hangman's noose to the few fragile hopes that still remained for a reconciliation with Britain...
...with much else in The Return of the Vanishing American, this suggestion demands a skeptical response. For when Fiedler leaves the well-beaten bush of literature and psychology for territory as complex "and mystifying as the human nervous system, he is a tourist who does not speak the language. He has an unfortunate way of composing statements full of adman phrases such as "New Man" and the "West of Here and Now." He has a penchant for over-categorizine and overreaching, as when he calls Marilyn Monroe the pop-culture version of the Indian love goddess, bleached out "under...
Houphouët is just as pragmatic in his politics. A bush doctor for 15 years and later the founding father of the country's 25-year-old Democratic Party, he has a keen understanding of his people. He shuns flowery forensics and reads his speeches in a soft, professorial voice. Like any other wily African tribal chief, he also does nothing to discourage stories of his black-magic prowess, or rumors that he consults the sacred crocodiles in his palace pond...
...figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush, Oh Men! Oh Women!) but almost none of the usual Hollywood hurrah. Her road to fame in Peyton Place: a man-weary divorcee trying to bring up teen-aged daughter Tippy Walker...
...club file. The next year another man pulled out the paper, retyped it, pasted on the fish to the title page, handed it in, and received an A-. The following year, another club member withdrew the paper, retyped it, but decided against pasting on the fish, considering it a bush move. The comment: "B+. Where's the fish...