Now the city of shadows that provided the backdrop for the Third Man is united, prosperous and pristine, but the spies are back in force – this time with Iran playing the bogeyman role of the Soviet Union.
Dennis Lillee, Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar all paid a physical price for pushing their bodies to the limit, while Devon Malcolm, Steve Harmison and Steve Finn can all attest to the psychological toll that the role of skull-cracking, stump-shattering bogeyman can exact.
Raul Martinez, a former mayor of Hialeah, a city neighboring Miami that has the highest percentage of Cubans in the US said Castro's role as bogeyman in local politics and civic affairs has been on the downswing in the last decade.
If Putin isn't always pleased by his more strident expressions of aggression and intolerance, he surely finds something useful in his role as the bogeyman of Russia's political system, and, in any case, he lacks the ability to control Kadyrov's every move.
The prospect of death brings Felix back into the life of the town, which had grown accustomed to seeing him as a kind of bogeyman.
TO GREENS, men like John Shimkus the chairman of a congressional body that oversees work to curb air, soil and water pollution represent a special sort of bogeyman.
Some Egyptians are convinced that the government released the likes of Mr. Zomor as a kind of bogeyman — to frighten the country about the possible downside of democracy.
Mr McCluskey responded by declining to play his seemingly allotted role as bogeyman.
He has become a sort of bogeyman among conservative skeptics who dismiss his warnings as "alarmist".
Politically, they [Russia's ruling elite] will have to find someone else to be the bogeyman, and to play the role of Trotsky".
