Word: henchman
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...feared that too often my name and the proximity of my father would be a source of discomfort or embarrasment. The fear was exaggerated. Harvard is big enough and diverse enough so that the problem is outweighed by the benefits. But occasionally I feel as must the underworld henchman who "knows too much." Friends and family will guard their conversation because I have friends "on the other side." I'm getting tired of being sworn to secrecy...
...this has hurt him among voters who might consider that his personal foreign policy, however motivated, had backfired. The Soviets leave no doubt about their sentiments toward Jackson. Recent Russian press articles have called him the "demonic advocate of the military-industrial complex," "the devil of Seattle" and the "henchman of Zionist circles...
...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...
...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...