Word: vendettas
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...agitation against both South Africa and France comes chiefly from the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, which found a community of purpose at Bandung and has been throwing its weight around since. India in particular, said Du Plessis, has "pursued a vendetta" against South Africa almost since the beginning...
...this, only emphasizes how little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies' shears that slit, but the vendetta's dagger, not prideful man that falls, but tormented beast...
...politics what should be a sober, nonpolitical issue of engineering and administrative procedure. In pursuance of this course they have put Chairman Strauss's integrity to the question on the flimsiest of pretexts. And they have encouraged their fellow Democrat, AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray, to engage in a vendetta with Strauss...
...retaliate by planting a bomb in Ford's car. but blow up his wife (Jocelyn Brando) by mistake. Aided by Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against Scourby that winds up in the usual litter of dead bodies and mass arrests. Since all the other characters are merely carbon copies from previous cops-and-robbers films, Gloria Grahame runs away with the picture by giving some complexity to her role of a female lush on the make...
Strange Deception. An often moving story of an Italian postwar vendetta, written and filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...