Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed along with his wife and first-born child. A chief had his eyes punched out, then he was pulled into his grass hut and burned alive with one of his sons. A businessman readily gave them $400 to $500 at a time, but one day they stopped his car and blew his head away. They had 'information' that he was not a good person. Later they found out they were misinformed. So they went back to the informant and shot...
...house is it? It may not have been a full house but it was certainly an appreciative one attending the opening of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. For three hours, lunacy reigned withing the austere decor of Dunster dining hall: a long-lost daughter dropped in, a practical businessman dropped out, a host of curious and spurious extramarital relations grew entangled...
BECAUSE this Dunster House Drama Society production tends toward the light-hearted and comic event, the two most malevolent characters are evoked sympathetically. Therefore, the members' of Heartbreak House failure to show alarm or despair at the deaths of Mangan, the deceitful businessman, and Billy Dunn, the burglar and ex-pirate, is not credible...
...Then fashion designers and music executives, some of whom are themselves gay, introduce to straight audiences whatever new look or sound catches on at Fire Island or other gathering places for gays. Says David Rothenberg, a gay who used to be a publicist on Broadway: "If I were a businessman, I'd walk Christopher Street la gay parade ground in Manhattan's Greenwich Village] because that's what they'll be selling at Lamston's next year...
...likely to become one in the near future. The study of the region or its languages, therefore, did not constitute its own reward so far as modern culture is concerned. High school textbooks routinely produced descriptions of Islam like the following: "It was started by a wealthy businessman of Arabia called Muhammad. He claimed that he was a prophet. He found followers among other Arabs. He told them that they were picked to rule the world." Whether Palestinian Arabs lost their land and political rights to Zionism, or Iranian poets were tortured by the SAVAK, little time was spent...