Word: ravener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a beauteous lady in distress, purloined papers, low, seedy minicriminals, velvety London fogs, the claustrophobic peril of a sealed gas chamber and Holmes' agile Houdini-like escape from it. Over everything lurks the brooding presence of Moriarty, played by Philip Locke like a Mephistophelean raven of evil...
...began to pick up more or less steady, but decidedly unglamorous work in such Roger Corman quickies as The Terror, starring Boris Karloff, and The Raven, in which Jack played Peter Lorre's son. The only real satisfaction Nicholson was to get from any of these films, besides a salary, was the chance to insert a little underhanded humor. He once had the smallest running part in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre-a chauffeur. Nicholson ad-libbed a single line of dialogue to steal a scene. While a hoodlum rubs some foreign substance on the ammunition, Nicholson...
...chief lama, the Jey Khempo. No other hands than theirs are ever allowed to touch the sacred silk. In an earlier ceremony, the King had already been given the Bhutanese crown, a silver-and-silk hat embroidered with three skulls and topped by the head of a raven, which is supposed to protect him from harm throughout his reign...
...dragon king, one of the world's last absolute monarchs, will probably need more than a raven to protect him. Shortly before his coronation, the Bhutanese announced that they had broken up a plot by Tibetan refugees to kill the King, burn the Tashichhodzong and take over the country for themselves. The plotters had apparently hoped to use Bhutan as a springboard to take back neighboring Tibet from the Chinese. The schemers allegedly included the beauteous Tibetan mistress of the late King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, who died of a heart ailment at age 44 in 1972. Other plots...
...Raven locks spread on garbage...