Word: zulus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraneous scene, the caterer dresses down an Arab oil sheik for being cruel to his Arab subjects. As the episode suggests, Jews have a slight edge in these comedies, perhaps reflecting the fact that there is a phenomenally low ticket demand for Broadway shows among Japanese gentlemen, Zulus and Arab sheiks...
Unseemly Start. For the Zulus, the bloodbath at Isandhlwana was their greatest triumph in a war they had not sought and could not win. The British offensive, launched in 1879, inexorably rolled on to destroy the most powerful nation that Black Africa ever produced. Author Morris has burdened the story of the Zulu nation's fitful reign and ultimate decline with unessential detail and endless digression. But the story itself survives his maltreatment...
...father, also a chieftain, dallied with a humble woman of another tribe. This was inexcusable royal behavior, and so the son was contemptuously named after the intestinal beetles, iShaka, that the Zulus held responsible for all illegitimate births...
...Usuto! Usuto!" (Kill! Kill!) The first wave sacrifices itself to test British fire power; then on they come, wave after wave, lunging, hacking, dying. For all but the squeamish, it is a grisly good show, and the film's climax is visually and dramatically stunning-when the fierce Zulus, some 18 hours later, roar acknowledgment of their enemy's diehard courage and withdraw, shields raised in tribute...
...architecture and the overall dynamic of the vast bazaar. If his timing is lucky, he can almost feel the heat as tawny Samoan youths prance beneath on mats of fire, and only moments later he may be staring down into the whites of the eyes of a dozen Zulus. He flies from Denmark to Switzerland via Ko rea, Venezuela, Central America, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Polynesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Malaysia, and most of Africa, with the rest of the world stretching one way down a series of pools to the Bell System, and another way across the Unisphere...