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...wing, the lovebirds catch delightful glimpses of such old film favorites as Wilfred Hyde-White, Grégoire Asian, John Le Mesurier, and Terry-Thomas cast as an Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...
...townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk in the streets of Johannesburg and a white man kicks me, I will grin and say, 'Baas, you would have made a great soccer player.' But there is murder in my heart. I wear different masks for different white people all the time...
...hardly looks like the stuff of legend: plump and puckish, a shy grin on his broad leg-of-mutton face, a shoulder holster sagging from the armpit of his sweat-blotched, green T shirt, a drinker of nothing more stimulating than cream soda. Yet Senior Chief Petty Officer Bernard G. Feddersen, 35, of the Seabees, is renowned from Danang to the Delta as the sharpest cumshaw artist in all Southeast Asia...
...counted on one and a half hands. The theater does not live on its masterpieces but between them. Man created the theater in his own image, and it wears two masks and a thousand faces. The mask of tragedy says weep-and bear it. The mask of comedy says grin-and bear it. The theater is witness and partner to man's endurance. Tawdry or frivolous, gallant, polemical or profound, the theater is the place where man speaks to man about man in his living presence...
...than honesty-hence the widespread acceptance of bribery and the sense of offended dignity when Westerners rail at the practice. It is impolite to ruffle another with one's own negative emotions; if one must refer to a recent bereavement, for instance, one does so with a happy grin, and officers arrested after abortive coups are often photographed smiling softly to themselves...