Word: manchurian
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...Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, California. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh's unblinking eye held the viewer's. Decades later, it still does. ?By Richard Corliss...
...victim in Hitch-cock's Psycho; in Beverly Hills. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (where a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh's unblinking eye held the viewer's. Decades later, it still does. - By Richard Corliss PLEADED GUILTY...
...units" and called the "struggle against corruption" a "major political task." In the first half of this year, government prosecutors opened 20,000 cases against officials who were allegedly taking bribes. Last year, according to the government, more than 250 officials were removed for buying their positions in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang?the post of county Party chief went for $35,000. Just last month, prosecutors revealed an investigation of 200 education officials in the western province of Sichuan who were implicated in taking bribes from textbook publishers, with one accused of pocketing $75,000 and passing the cost...
What with political films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Manchurian Candidate, in which Denzel Washington tries to unravel a plot by a Halliburton-esque military conglomerate, even fluffy summer entertainment is starting to look a lot like a political statement...
...Manchurian beer war took shape 104 years ago when a Russian man founded China's first beer factory just south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin...