Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking for Blood. In response, clandestine bands of rightist terrorists went looking for blood. One night they carried off a 26-year-old former beauty queen who was proud of her left-wing sympathies, raped her and beat her to death with rifle butts. Vowing to avenge her murder, leftist terrorists drove up to the home of a Guatemalan army colonel early last week and machine-gunned one of his guards. The next day a leftist lawyer was gunned down with his bodyguard, and a right-wing politician was shot in front of his home. A few hours later, Webber...
Police fanned out across the city, soon spotted the green murder car and, after a fierce gun battle, killed Communist Terrorist Leonard Castillo John son, 22, a member of the Castroite Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)-and the boyfriend of the murdered beauty queen. The next morning, the FAR issued a brief bulletin, claiming credit for the murders of Webber and Munro, and posthumously congratulating Castillo as the triggerman who had "brought to justice the Yanqui officers who were teaching tactics to the Guatemalan army for its war against the people...
Weak-Kneed Henchman. To further assure opening-night disaster, the producers then proceed to sign up the queen of Broadway's limp-wristed directors, hire a totally mind-blown hippie (Dick Shawn) as their star, and attempt to bribe the New York Times drama critic by wrapping his ticket in a hundred dollar bill. To no avail. The show is unintentionally funny, the public floods the box office with orders, and Mostel and Wilder are floated up the river for fraud...
...wilderness offering Christ a rock and boldly challenging him to turn the stone into bread. Christ resists the temptation, and one can almost hear the famous words "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." For a Queen, it was doubtless meant as a gentle reminder that if divinity resists temptation, then so must royalty...
...King Berenger learns in his last 90 minutes is an existential truism: one dies alone, with no quarter given and no help available. The only person who begs the king to cling to life is his succulently attractive second wife, young Queen Marie (Patricia Conolly). The pompous court physician is professionally adamant about the exactitude of his countdown to death, and the carping old crone (Eva Le Gallienne) who was the king's first wife adopts a get-on-with-it tone...