Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy, it was an alarming thought. The Viet Cong has pledged "to smash the election farce of the U.S. aggressors and their henchmen in Saigon," and ordered all the 541 candidates running for 108 places in the assembly-to be elected Sept. 1 1-to "withdraw their names immediately" on pain of death. So far the V.C. have talked tougher than they have acted: no candidates have yet been assassinated. But Communist cadres have been infiltrating hamlets and villages at night to conduct anti-election seminars, and have begun stealing identification cards and voter registration slips from peasants. The Viet...
...Sauron's domain of Mordor and then dropping it into the impenetrable Cracks of Doom. On his long journey, Frodo is aided by a variety of elves and dwarves, set upon by horrid, yellow-toothed Orcs, nine Ringwraiths riding dark horses, a giant spider, and other henchmen of Sauron. His quest is over when the Dark Lord is finally destroyed during the bloody War of the Ring...
Before an army of Arabs rides to the rescue by horse and hydrofoil, Modesty unreels a few reasonably sturdy gags in the midst of its chichi nonsense. The zaniest occurs early on when Bogarde's henchmen torture Monica with a piece of mobile sculpture. In a movie so given to self-conscious giggles, even the fine art of manhandling takes a peculiar turn...
Tragic & Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary...
This is surely not The Nuremburg Trials; The Shop on Main Street gains its power by restricting itself to the study of one village. Hitler is hardly mentioned. Instead we are constantly reminded that the soldiers and henchmen are Czechoslavakian themselves, often residents of the village. The film thus shows us jealous neighbor persecuting more fortunate neighbor in an almost vigilante fashion. The topic is indeed timely for, if we can believe C. L. Sulzberger, this kind of persecution is taking place today throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, where the overseas Chinese and other minority groups are constantly subject...