Word: sihanouk
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...also wrote martial numbers and at least one symphony. Setting up his own studio in the palace, Sihanouk began producing motion pictures (for charity) starring himself, with a supporting cast of Cambodian civil servants. With characteristic impartiality, Sihanouk played both a detective and a villain...
...took to painting Cambodian landscapes-significantly, he has since done a picture of Mao Tse-tung's birthplace. He acquired a taste for fast sports cars and blooded horses, on which he became an excellent jumper. More recently, Sihanouk has fielded his own palace soccer, basketball and volleyball teams and led them against various other teams...
...Transformation. With typical forthrightness, he once told his subjects in a radio broadcast: "It is true that from 1941 to 1952 when I was King, still young and handsome, certain pretty specimens of the feeble sex liked my company, and it came about that I sinned."" But then Sihanouk turned suddenly to the role of a serious politician...
...maintains that he was transformed by the death of his last child, a five-year-old daughter, in 1952-which he looked upon as a supernatural sign of punishment. To that point, Sihanouk had done little more toward independence than replace Paris' protectorate with "autonomous" membership within the French Union...
...threw himself into a fight for total freedom. First, Sihanouk took the field as a general and helped lead Cambodian troops against the Viet Minh Communist guerrillas from North Viet Nam then trying to get a toe hold in Cambodia. Strapping on a Colt .45 and donning an Aussie hat, the young King commanded half a company of Cambodian troops, shared field rations, slept in a pitched tent...