Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with their faces and bodies ceremonially daubed with bright paint. They banged on drums, cheered and sang Jomo Kenyatta Is Coming Home At Last, a song especially composed for the occasion. The Burning Spear (a Kikuyu title for the bravest warrior of all) acknowledged the greeting with an imperious wave of his horsetail fly whisk, then briskly got down to the business of making peace between Kenya's two leading political parties-the K.A.D.U. and K.A.N.U.-who have been feuding interminably over who did the most to get Jomo Kenyatta released. Said Jomo. who is cautiously avoiding taking sides...
...Must. In the 19th century, the exploitation of rubber in the interior introduced another wave of slaughter. To punish one miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white...
...note leaves Philip's entire estate to the mistress. Tom then seduces the mistress, who insists that he live with her-in Philip's apartment, on Philip's money. The Eastmancolor photography by Henri Decaë, a superb young craftsman who rode the New Wave (The Four Hundred Blows, The Cousins) to success, bathes all this in an innocent holiday light that makes the crime seem the more hideous by contrast, like a big hairy spider crawling slowly across a travel poster...
...roof, shoots his cuffs, leaps to the next roof, thumbs his nose at the raging cuckold, dances off into the dawn. The young man is Jean-Pierre Cassel, whose frantic antics in The Love Game (TIME. Nov. 28) made him overnight the Danny Kaye of the French New Wave, and instead of popping out of that skylight he should of stood in bed. The Love Game was a delightfully risky, frisky, upstairs -downstairs -and -in -my-lady's-chamber sort of farce. The Joker is just a second verse, a little bit louder and a whole lot worse...
...officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them. By dawn of May 30, the first wave of an astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like it; the beachboat Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies...