Manchurian-born Tretchikoff escaped from Soviet Russia and emigrated to South Africa after World War II.
Windows XP, currently in not-quite-final "release candidate" state, looks more like the Manchurian Candidate, a bland facade concealing unexpected brutishness.
The band of Manchurian guerrillas who had attended the state's birth appeared bound by almost chivalric oaths of fealty, trust and reciprocal obligation.
From MK-ULTRA to the Manchurian Candidate, scientists and science fiction fans have been thinking about mind control for a very long time.
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But perhaps Frankenheimer's most enduring work was The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
Zhukov first showed his extraordinary mettle against Japanese forces on the Mongolian-Manchurian border during the summer of 1939, where the two sides were vying for dominance.
David Brooks, a conservative columnist on the New York Times, recently declared that he sometimes wonders whether Mr Bush is a Manchurian candidate sent to discredit conservatism.
Think of films like The Manchurian Candidate, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and even Election which focused on a high-school race but still featured plenty of intrigue.
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Even if Ivanishvili is a Manchurian candidate personally dispatched by Putin, dear Bidzina will have to keep Georgia moving in a Western direction unless he wants to have a very short political career.
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As most Muslim-Americans vividly remember, during the 2008 presidential election, when certain nasty and xenophobic right-wing elements in America tried to paint Obama as some kind of "crypto-Muslim" Manchurian candidate, we did not see then-candidate Obama go, even once, within 12 feet of an American mosque entrance or Muslim political campaign event.
As I quipped on Twitter this morning, if Ivanishvili (someone who has repeatedly and forcefully advocated on behalf of EU and NATO membership) is really the best Manchurian candidate that the Russians can dig up, then their bench is even thinner than I would have guessed and the GRU and the FSB need to urgently re-evaluate their recruiting procedures.
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