Word: hana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urgent Appeal. When the news of the defeat finally reached Vientiane, something like panic seized the otiose Laotian government. Crown Prince Savang Vat-hana, 52, was speedily invested as Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya...
...their candidates. Castro shook his head wordlessly. Behind him, wearing dirt-streaked khaki pants, sweat-stained shirt and heavy shoes, Louie Pacheco, 44, operator of a harvesting machine, broke through the campaign workers with the cheerful promise to vote for everybody. "Hey, Louie!" yelled a friend. "See you pan hana [after work]? Plenty feesh at Kapukamoi!" Replied Louie in pidgin English: "No more da car. Da ole lady bin go Lihue today." "I pick you up?" offered the friend. "Hokay!" yelled Louie, as he ducked into the schoolhouse...
...miscegenation. Based on James Michener's bestselling switch on John Luther Long's love story, the picture tells the tale of Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), an ace of the Korean war known as "the Air Force's pinup boy," and a Japanese pinup girl named Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), the star of the Matsubayashi vaudeville troupe...
Brando is supposed to be a Southerner-though his accent sounds as if it was strained through Stanislavsky's mustache. When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what...
...Hana-ogi is the lead dancer in an all-girl troupe governed by austere rules of conduct. But Lloyd and Hana-ogi break all the rules and become lovers. The affair that results is an obstacle race with tragedy. Social pressures bedevil the pair; so do officers' wives, Army regulations and Lloyd's father ("Y'can't send half-Jap boys to the Point"). Finally, Hana-ogi is sent to another dancing post and Lloyd is railroaded back to the U.S. and his pre-fling fiancée, a general's daughter...