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...pleasant when you do not needlessly inform every jerk you meet that he is indeed a jerk. What does this mean in practice? Say you go to meet the deputy foreign minister. You may not be certain if he likes you, for either way taarof will demand that he greet you warmly, pour you tea, and suggest you meet again. It would not, however, compel him to obfuscate matters of political substance...
...meeting of world leaders failed to solve global poverty or secure peace in the Middle East, but because a private chat between the pair was picked up by an open [an error occurred while processing this directive] mike and broadcast around the world. But the conversation - which saw Bush greet the British PM with a cozy, "Yo, Blair. How are you doin'?" - is just the latest case of politicians being caught on-air and unaware. Here are other high-profile victims of the dreaded live mike, ranked on Time's blush-ometer. At the height of the cold...
...seen Blackboard Jungle, where the vicious high-school punks smash a teacher's Bix Beiderbecke records. So I knew Mike was a bad guy.) The music plays up his thug character as well. When Mike shows up in a doorway, we hear the clanging chords that usually greet the first appearance of a monster. This isn't a private eye film; it's a Hammer horror movie...
...family clans eke out a hard, bucolic living. The Hamsters adhere to the ancient Davine scriptures, learning his "runs" by rote from the local priest, or Driver. They speak in Mokni, a transliterated mix of cockney, mobile text speak and the misunderstood vocabulary of cabbie Dave. Thus, they greet one another with "Ware2, guv," the night sky becomes the "dashboard," unmarried women are "opares" and every hot meal is a "curry." Peaceful normality reigns until one islander by the name of Symun starts preaching his doubts about the sacred texts. Far to the north, where a new London is rising...
...While appearing in Broadway's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, he asked other cast members to greet him with "Hey, sailor...