Word: lackeyism
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...Lackey Diem...
...document" of the "heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people against the American imperialists and their lackey Diem," the film illustrates much that U.S. newspapers have described: barbed wire-enclosed strategic hamlets, American tanks rolling down American-built strategic highways, American pilots bombing Vietnamese villages; American soldiers leading Vietnamese troops...
Meanwhile Buddhists from eleven Asian nations-some fellow travelers, but others apparently sincere monks-turned up in Peking for a three-day rally, listened to a Viet Cong delegate denounce South Viet Nam as "a hell on earth created by United States imperialism and its lackey, the Ngo Dinh Diem clique." Ignoring Red China's own subjugation of Buddhism, the meeting unanimously adopted a resolution accusing Diem of "atrocities." By serving as a vehicle for Red Chinese propaganda, the Buddhists hardly strengthened their case...
...famed war correspondent (John Randolph) has been vilified in print by his old right-wing extremist friend (Larry Gates) as a Communist-line lackey and a "drunken, immoral, yellow-bellied degenerate." An ace trial lawyer (Van Heflin) fights through to victory after the customary initial aw-shucks-not-another-case gambit. Of course there is the loyal, jittery, correspondent's wife, who wants to throw in the towel marked HIS. Of course there is the bright young legal eaglet who breaks the case wide open by being able to read an incriminating scrap of paper upside down...
...hotel manager, in sinister makeup, obviously represents Death. He has a key for the groom all right, the key he has been looking for all his life. The groom is told to lie down on a bench, and a coffin is built around him. When the manager and a lackey finish nailing it together, they carry it away, leaving the bridegroom lying dead on the bench, hands crossed on his chest. In one hand...