Word: mien
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Died. Paul Lukas, 76, the durable actor with the Continental mien; of heart disease; in Tangier. "Acting is a Gesell-schaftspiel" declared Budapest-born Lukas. "When I speak lines in a play, I mean them; I am talking to someone. It's all real." Brought to America by Producer Adolph Zukor in 1927, Lukas first appeared on the Hollywood silent screen opposite Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress. He took a recess from films and in 1941 scored his greatest stage triumph portraying Kurt Müller, the dogged anti-Nazi hero of Lillian Hellman's Watch...
...Smith, his mustache drooping imperially, leans forward in his scarlet mess dress tunic to rearrange the saltcellars, silverware and apples on the table before him. There are proud mutterings of hussars, lancers, and Royal Scots Greys, tones of awe for the Panzergrenadiers. "There they were," he announces with grave mien. "And over here, a thin red line...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. eit., p. 28) All of Guatemala's top colonels are trained by the United States (Castillo Armas was a Fort Leavenworth grad), and all the counter-insurgency Ranger troops are trained at Ft. Gulick, Panama Canal Zone. But then, as the late Ambassador John Mien said as he presented Guatemala's gorillas with a few armored vehicles, grenate launchers, and jet powered helicopters...
That was "mau-mauing." Chameleon-voiced as usual, and still given to Homeric catalogues and hang-ten metaphors, Wolfe inhabits an imaginary mau-mau character as he gleefully recalls some of the finer techniques. First, aspect: "You go down there with your hair stickin' out!" Second, mien: "Don't say nothing. You just glare." Then, tactics−which include bringing along some ringer Samoans who all look ten feet tall. One of Wolfe's master mau-mauers, like some Pied Piper of litterbugs, threatens to devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids...