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...took out the last of their savings and bought him a mod sleigh-a small plane with Santa Claus faces painted on its sides-and Auger flew into Santa Monica and Los Angeles with a sack over his shoulder. Local civic clubs would arrange for scores of kids to greet him: "The kids would all gang up around the airplane and I'd hand out all kinds of goodies." He did it for nearly ten years, but he was working as hard as he had in Stockton and, once again, his heart forced him to quit...
...rather sobering voyage into a decrepit old-age home near the film's end. Still, on at least one occasion, Where's Poppa? practically made me fall out of my seat with laughter. With the possible exception of napping, this seems as good a way as any to greet the seemingly grim years ahead...
...first thing Pattakos did on arriving in Samarina was to greet the local policemen and the village priest. He went straight to the church to pay his respects. The Orthodox Church plays an essential role in the junta's image. The prayer books used by school children in Greece have a picture of Christ on the first page and the official emblem-the phoenix rising out of the flame-on the opposite page...
...play is a bit different. Jack and Harry greet each other and talk. Not only that. They meet Kathleen and Mariorie, two lower-class women who are earthier and more honest than the genteel men. It is from the women that we learn that Harry burned down a building, and that Jack followed little girls. Spouting giggles at Harry's unintentional double-entendres and leaning coquettishly on his arm, Kathleen clearly likes the shy, wistful man; perhaps Marjorie, sour and blunt, finds Jack attractive as well. the relationship cannot develop. "Events have their own momentum," Harry says at one point...
...Saigon's "Soul Kitchen" black GI's greet each other over spareribs, pork chops, chittlins, grits and cornbread with more than 57 varieties of black power handshakes that may end with vowing to die for your comrade by crossing the chest Roman legion style...