Word: henchman
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...Bahama with only the Moorish-style El Casino in operation. In Nassau, the wheels still spin at the sedate Bahamian Club, now run by Eddie Cellini, who along with his brother Dino once ran the casino at Havana's Hotel Nacional for the big-time gambler and Mafia henchman, Meyer Lansky...
...last, the misanthropic Hombre rises to perform the predictably noble act that redeems him. In the final gunplay, he knocks off Boone and a Mexican henchman who confides to Balsam before expiring: "I would like to know hees name . . ." Hees name is mud, and so is hees scenarist...
...forever delighted readers with his breezy, irreverent approach to the art. "The test of music," he once said, "is not the mathematics behind it, but how it sounds"-a test he applied to himself in some 50 highly popular works, most notably two romantic operas, The King's Henchman (1927) and Peter Ibbetson (1931), both performed by the Metropolitan and widely acclaimed as the first genuine U.S. contribution to the form...
Indeed, the entire Harlem program has been a tragic fiasco. Conceived in the hope that it could improve life in the prototypical Negro ghetto, the program has stumbled and stagnated under the leadership of HARYOU-ACT. The agency, directed by Powell Henchman Livingston Wingate, originally hoped to get $118 million in federal, city and private funds for an immense three-year program. So far, it has received barely $10 million-including $3,456,096 in OEO money-and even that turned out to be more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver...
Besides Miss Firth and Rosen, I liked Richard Cooke, as a henchman of the demagogic Southern senator who wants to dispossess the poor but tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...