Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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African mercenaries: the very term is redolent of Bondish machismo memories. "Mad Mike" Hoare and his swaggering Fifth Commando punishing the ragtag Congolese army during the 1965 Katanga rebellion. Or perhaps Frederick Forsyth's dirty dozen in The Dogs of War, liberating the fictional kingdom of Zangaro from a maniacal, Soviet-backed African dictator-for a price...
Emmi Levin, played a "fabulous" match, according to captain Susy Handy. In the third game, Levin was hit by her opponent's racquet. "I was mad, so I won the game," Levin said last night...
...death camps, Pasqualino's thirst for life provokes him to invent a plan which represents the complete abandonment of dignity in the name of survival; he will seduce the commandant (Shirley Stoller) in order to eat. In a series of pathetic but comic scenes which show that Pasqualino's mad scheme derives as much from his vanity as from his desperation, he attempts to bring his Neapolitan charm to bear on the ogress, despite the ravages his misfortunes have wreaked on his appearance. Whistling, winking, and blowing kisses as if he were on an Italian street corner, Pasqualino hums...
UNITA is getting other help as well. American advisers have been seen discreetly circulating around Silva Pôrto. About 1,000 mercenaries, recruited in the U.S., Britain, Portugal and France, also landed in Zaïre last week to report for duty. Even Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, legendary leader of the Congo mercenaries in the mid-1960s, appeared to be gearing up for action. From Johannesburg, he sent an "alert notice" to members of the Wild Geese Club, composed of Congo veterans. Hoare said he was offering his services to Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...women; Connie (Dori Brenner) wants to be a novelist and plays nursemaid to her black gay pal Bernstein Chandler (Antonio Fargas), who claims his mother named him after the Jewish family for whom she worked 30 years as a maid. All of them keep an eye on the fragile, mad-eyed actress Anita (Lois Smith), who periodically attempts suicide...