The Goombas, those shimmying villains of the Mushroom Kingdom, are back, and Mario still dispatches them by hopping on their heads.
All but dissolving in fear, she still dispatches him in a rewrite of "Little Red Riding Hood" that would make Angela Carter proud.
Sections of the Labour Party still held a candle for the aging square-jawed Kremlin brutes and their grisly projects, still sang the "Internationale" at the annual conference, still dispatched students on good-will exchanges.
But they did not represent what happened to millions of other people who were not opponents of the regime and did not engage in any kind of substantial dissent, but were still dispatched to labor camps, to exile in remote settlements or to summary execution.
Its officials are still dispatched to cut off terrorists' money, to create a new currency for Iraq or to negotiate with the Chinese about letting the value of their currency rise, a development that would slow the growth of the American trade deficit.
Leclerc approved Sainteny's proposal to negotiate with Ho because he preferred a diplomatic solution to a larger conflict, but he still dispatched a flotilla with shiploads of French soldiers to northern Vietnam ready to attack if the talks failed.
2010's Machete stretched a joke trailer in Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse collaboration into spottily amusing mock-schlock; here it's stretched further still – dispatching Danny Trejo's Latino avenger first to Washington, then into space – with fewer laughs.
Primate subjects were prized for the ways they resembled humans in mirror-identity tests, language acquisition and more, but could still be dispatched as property at the end of the experimental day.
In London, on the morning of Oct. 11, the day after learning of the Laurel's departure from Liverpool, the legation secretary, Moran, with Adams still away, dispatched an alert to the commander of the Union Navy warship Niagara, then in the English Channel.
