Word: houseboy
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...four major schools of interpretation (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafei and Hanbali) is followed. Islamic justice can be harsh in an eye-for-an-eye manner. Judges tend to opt for severity rather than leniency if there is any doubt. An American couple in Saudi Arabia caught their Pakistani houseboy stealing one day and ordered him to report to the police. They were astonished when he returned home minus one hand. It had been chopped off and the stub of his arm plunged into boiling tallow to disinfect...
...abstraction, a vast uncertain threat. It casts an inevitable shadow over the heart breakingly lovely landscape, over everything that is done, every political act, every economic plan, every white hope. In the mind of the white South African, there is usually very little connection between the two incarnations: the houseboy, the factory worker, the shop assistant are so familiar and often so placid that one can scarcely link them with that other, menacing force. Partly that is because black life is hidden and to a great extent silent. And yet slowly, slowly, the two black images are converging...
...neglected the long periods when he is not onscreen. One feels for Lom and the rest of the cast, working sweatily to be funny with not much help from the creative talents. On the other hand, Sellers is amply provided for. Once again, he is well served by his houseboy, Cato, hiding in his apartment and leaping out at him for ferociously funny karate encounters. Sellers also has a couple of fine set pieces-interrogating all the witnesses to the crime, wrestling with a Russian superspy (Lesley-Anne Down) and a ludicrously athletic attempt to penetrate Lom's castle...
Crime in white Salisbury has always been low, and guerrilla terrorism has not yet touched the capital. But most whites pack a pistol in the house and some (illegally) in the glove compartment of the car. Distrust of domestic servants is growing; the woman who has a foreign houseboy from Malawi or South Africa is considered lucky. "They're, well, more dependable," says a secretary who lives in one of the newer white suburbs named, perhaps prophetically, Gun Hill...
...Jimmie Blacksmith is actually only half aboriginal. His father was a nameless white man. Jimmie's mixed strain is both judgment and destiny. Mentally but not emotionally weaned from the chants and lore of a now decadent tribal heritage, he tries to make his way as a houseboy and laborer in the harsh, pinched world of white Protestants-the missionaries and farmers who are claiming the open land. From them Jimmie learns the snobbery of materialism, according to which "possession [is] a holy state...