Word: henchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record, The Man with the Golden Gun finds Bond chasing around Southeast Asia in pursuit of an assassin named Scaramanga who gets $1 million per contract for the use of his gold weapon. There is the usual action (fights, pursuits, assignations), the usual bantamweight grotesqueries. Scaramanga's evil henchman is a dwarf, and Scaramanga himself (Christopher Lee), an unusually unimpressive villain, would be a dead cinch to spot on a beach since he has three nipples. Nothing much happens to any of these characters that has not happened before, and better. Maud Adams and Britt Ekland do, however, make...
...superclassic and henchman, You ought to be ashamed; You once copied another man's novel, But you couldn't repeat the performance...
THERE's a man called The Pug-Nosed Man who appears one day in a bar and speaks only in interrogative sentences, except for his first and last lines. There's a pimp called Baboon who operates out of a Chinese flophouse and acts like a henchman for a Malay lumber dealer who tries to bribe a librarian to say the book he wants to borrow is a good one. A Salvation Army preacher (name unknown) whose skin is so thick "it bends anything you stick into it" lets a man spit in his face as a condition...
...Jungle of Cities. A jungle is an apt, if overused, metaphor for the most grotesque, competitive aspects of a city--John D. Rockefeller, invoking Darwin to describe his goals for the capitalist economy, suggested how apt the comparison can be--and Brecht populates his jungle with Baboon and another henchman cleverly named Worm to emphasize the point. But otherwise he ignores the real psychology of city life in order to concentrate on the petty idiosyncracies of his characters...
...selection of the dean, students are unlikely to welcome the final choice eagerly. The Faculty, if it remembers the turmoil of 1968 and 1969, should also recognize the danger of a dean lacking the support of all factions of the Faculty, a dean who is more the President's henchman than their effective representative...