Posse

posse

Y

[pos-ee]

【美】(由地方治安官召集的) 地方治安維持隊



D



–noun 

1. posse comitatus. 

2. a body or force armed with legal authority. 





　

In what was obviously a project near and dear to Cusack's heart, the actor (who also co-scripted and produced) plays Hauser, the classic troubled hitman (see "Grosse Pointe Blank") who drowns his sorrows with straight shots of hot sauce. 



(The label of one, Napalm Girl, features a silhouette of the famous Vietnam-era photo of the girl running naked from her napalmed village. So we're not exactly talking Noel Coward here.)



napalm

[ney-pahm]

【化】納旁;汽油膠化劑

凝固汽油;凝固汽油彈



In Turaqistan, Hauser goes undercover as organizer of the Brand USA Trade Show, an exercise in tackiness whose centerpiece is Yonica's wedding. Hauser keeps trying to take out Omar, with no success, and in the interim has to deal 



not just with Yonica's posse of wannabe gangstas,



but also Turaqistani insurgents with their own agendas. Some of the more exhilarating scenes involve secret agent Cusack dispatching bad guys with guns, clubs and kung fu.





colossal 

mogul magnate czar tycoon

regent prexy



despot vassal enclave

villein

a serf in [feudalism]

paean 

is [at] some level a [paean] of [praise] [to] the fortitude and moral courage that 

[paeon] a prosodic foot in verse - ---

[peon] social have-nots

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