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Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...
...Meos for years with Meo-language broadcasts, but the tribe reportedly split into pro-and anti-Communist factions after a quarrel over the division of the opium crop. Colonel Vang and his cousin, Health Minister Touby Lyfoung, lead the loyalist Meos. The Pathet Lao Meos follow Chief Phay Dang, described by Communist Journalist Wilfred Burchett, who once visited him, as "a noble figure with a fine head, the dignity and poise of a great Indian chief...
...Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created by God and a little more by Brando, and others may realize that, if it were less pretentious. Jacks would be easier to recognize as. on the whole, a dang good shoot-'em-up show...
...second trip brings him a Ph.D. degree, and a third a lifetime supply of that scholarly formaldehyde, tenure. Surprisingly, his life as an aborigine (he is accepted as a Dang) makes considerably more sense to him than his hollow existence as an academician. The savages consider him a master prophet, and he is on the point of believing it himself when, like a paddle ball on a rubber cord, he is snapped back to civilization. The irony is delicately put, and Satirist Elliott leaves no doubt as to which society he is shaving with his razor's edge...
...area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought him, he'd go a different way-over a fence or under, or just plain dang through. He's the most intelligent animal I've ever encountered." For four exasperating years the chase continued. The capture of the outlaw dog became an obsession...