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...rectification" campaign requires all party members endure selfcriticism, attend weekly study sessions and digest three volumes of prescribed readings. All, ironically, are techniques pioneered and perfected by Mao (who once declared, "Selfcriticism is like eating dogmeat: if you haven't tried it, you don't know what you're missing"). But the reformers have taken care to avoid the mass rallies, shrill tirades and media fanfare of purges past. Says a Peking party functionary: "Deng doesn't want this to develop into a movement that will create chaos and instill fear...
...better effect he would know that a fourflusher is not a cheater, as the Pub letter alleges, but a poor old bluffer trying to do his best in a stud game with four cards of one suit facing up (that's a four-flush) and nothing but dogmeat in the hole (what he needs for a legitimate flush is five cards of one suit...
When the National Hockey League created a new division made up of six expansion teams last season, cynical fans talked of the "dogmeat wing" or the "humpty loop." The derisive epithets disappeared when the upstart St. Louis Blues won the West Division playoffs, then forced the vaunted Montreal Canadiens into two overtime games before losing the Stanley Cup. St. Louis rooters can document to the day the start of their team's surge. It was the moment the Blues first...
...exaggerated, but true. If you like food, you'd better try Adams. But don't be disappointed if you find yourself living with a lot of fat slobs. There is no unity to Adams outside the dining hall, but the food never sinks to the level of the dogmeat-and-pablum projectiles the central dining halls call "Salisbury steak." And Irene is the friendliest hostess...
...Petrzalka, Czechoslovakia, on the complaint of a woman who thought that she had been sold dogmeat, police raided the butcher shop of Josef Lehanec, found hundreds of smoked rats hanging from his hooks, arrested him on a charge of butchering without a license...