Word: henchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merchants is hidden beneath masks of respectibility and only when they make their plans is the full measure of their malevolence revealed. With their henchmen, however, the situation is different. They boldly flaunt their fugitive status and are terrifyingly eager to implement the merchant's plans for destruction. A henchman (Tatsuys Nakadai) of the sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person in the town who owns a pistol, he takes complete advantage of the fact. With obvious pleasure he flourishes the tool and when he kills with it, observes the death with cruel joy. At film...
...range of Nakadai's emotions nearly breaks the rigidity of his role. One can deduce that the part only called for the characterization of a gun-happy youth, but he extends it to include the henchman's realization of the role firearms will have in Japan's future...
...poetic genius who originally shaped Beowulf around the monster and the Geatish champion was busy trying to blend heroism and history, pagan myth and Christian message. He had no time to empathize with the devil's henchman. So Beowulf's Grendel is beastly, God-cursed, a conventional scourge to man. Gardner's Grendel may look like a lump of earth with a hairy pelt, but (conveniently, yet convincingly) he throbs with primal rage, despair, collegiate idealism and existential inquiry. Gardner has also given him a gnawing sense of humor. "I have eaten several priests," Grendel reports. "They...
Illinois, a key figure in the earlier House defeat of the SST, was in the Speaker's lobby. "We've got a chance," he said hopefully. "I've got a couple of guys I think I can switch." Ohio's Donald Clancy, a Ford henchman, overheard him. "We've got some more," he told Yates. Yates sagged, for he realized that the Republican leaders had more votes in reserve than he did. "God damn you," Yates said halfheartedly...