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...Tarrytown. Pete arranged to pick up the Turban chieftains; another Y.D.I. worker collected the Senators. In Vaus's basement meeting room, the gang leaders began arguing: "You come into our block and burned us . . ." "Look, man, I ain't no punk, you know! . . ." Suddenly, Pete crashed his fist down on the table: "All right, you guys, you've been yakking for half an hour! Willy, look! This guy already told you he made a mistake. They admit they done something wrong. Will you accept?" "No. man," said Willy. "I told you one of our boys got hurt...
...long show had a rough-and-ready air about it. Frequently the sound was so bad that words were indistinguishable. Some of the camera work was shaky, some of the cutting rough. As an editorial, the program was impassioned rather than closely reasoned. But the report hit like a fist and left some haunting images in the viewers' minds: the despair of an out-of-work electrician's helper in a dirt-floored hut in Caracas; the satisfaction of a fisherman whose family has a fine new cottage in a Cuban cooperative-and the naively shrewd question...
Simonov then began to describe a film which he felt had been better done, Ballad of a Soldier. As he retold the plot, his hands, which are nearly always active, became powerfully expressive. He would push his fist forward with a twisting motion, suddenly pull a chunk of space toward himself with both hands; sometimes, when he was looking for a word, he would feel the air with his fingers in a "je ne sais quoi" gesture. Then he would explain, "I can't say it. I can just express it like this, with my fingers...
...furniture for the beats"). The host and hostess welcomed their swarming guests in separate rooms, and as the party roared past the midnight hour, Mailer drank deeply and became moodily belligerent. By the time the party broke up at 3:30 a.m., he had been in two fist fights, had received a small black...
...table. No one need be deceived. The battle is not between Washington and Moscow; it is really between Rome and Moscow." As the archbishop read his letter in Santiago Cathedral last week, 60 militiamen invaded the church, starting a day-long campaign of harassment that led to fist fights between Catholics and Castroites...