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Human Conveyor Belt. Another underworld leader caught in the net was Sukar Narain Bakhia, 37, a 200-lb. illiterate who signs his documents with a thumbprint. He ruled the little town of Daman (formerly Portuguese Damao) south of Bombay like a personal fiefdom. By day Daman was just another sleepy seaside village with the blue Ara bian Sea lapping at its golden beaches...
...PLAY IS a series of vignettes built around the myth of Demeter, the Earth goddess, and her daughter Persephone. According to the myth, Persephone is seized and abducted by Hades who takes her to his kingdom of the dead and makes her his wife and queen of the underworld. Demeter, upon learning of her daughter's fate, goes into a period of mourning so intense that it causes all green things to turn brown and die. Finally, to prevent the earth from dying, Zeus intervenes and orders Hades to restore Persephone to her mother. Hades does so, but only after...
Richard Harris is a hit man brought in by Underworld Overlord Edmund O'Brien to fight his gang war for him. O'Brien's rival is Bradford Dillman; Dillman's big gun is Chuck Connors, who performs various cruelties (on Kathrine Baumann, among others) with an artificial arm. The sadism strikes the moviemakers as funny; it is not. And as further evidence of the decline of Director Frankenheimer's creative energy, the film approaches tragedy...
...flashes of cleavage from the other side of the table. After that comes the familiar crescendo of scare scenes. Parkins evaporates, but the bewitched Haskell traces her to a secluded-is there any other kind-mansion, where he is promptly zapped. That is followed by a defenestration, a complicated underworld search and a huge conflagration...
...brown sugar" because of its color and texture, this Asian heroin has a purity of only 50%, compared with the 96%-98% of the old Marseille product. Once processed, this crudely refined "sugar" is smuggled into Amsterdam in small amounts (usually no more than 2 lbs.) by Chinese "mules" (underworld slang for narcotics couriers). Often they are illegal residents of Amsterdam, who have been blackmailed into carrying drugs after they have run up heavy debts playing mah-jongg in the "Chinese Only" gambling dens of the city's Rosse Buurt (red-light district). Once the heroin arrives...