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...Like the Hunt Ball. You know the hostess looks like a horse and everyone's hell's boring except me. Being a deb was easy because my daddy's a noble lord. Did I mention that? And I did the beatniks too -in Chelsea. Beatniks grunt and look sick and don't wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says the best way to keep from being raped...
...essential to it. Across the nation last week, the surprising business upturn -and where it would lead-was the subject of almost every businessman's conversation. The usual optimists had a field day, the fence-sitters felt stirrings of commitment, and even the normally cautious allowed themselves a grunt or two of satisfaction. The sentiments of U.S. businessmen, from the corporate chief to the corner clothier, were captured by Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co.: "The current upswing in business seems to have something for everybody." Only six months ago many trendspotters had worried aloud about...
Sound Ground. In a drumfire of propaganda outbursts, Indonesia hailed the "Brunei freedom fighters," lashed out at "British mercenaries and puppets," granted political asylum to Brunei Leader Azahari, raved that Abdul Rahman was "round the bend." (Retorted the Tunku: "What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?") Djakarta mobs hanged the Tun ku in effigy, and Sukarno declared a "policy of confrontation" against Malaya. Indonesian jets buzzed Malayan ships in the South China Sea, and army leaders darkly threatened "incidents of physical conflict" along the border of Brunei and Indonesia...
...second to the first. Nine men dead. Then he provokes both sides to a pitched battle. Twenty or 30 men dead and the town in ruins. By hook or crook, trick or treat, the samurai assists the slaughter until, hilariously or horribly, everybody has eliminated everybody. With a grunt of solid satisfaction, the hero survevs the vacant village and declares: "Now we'll have a little quiet in this town." At this point, many customers will be wondering whether to laugh or scream. On second thoughts, most of them will decide to scream. Taken entire, Yojimbo is an appalling...
...Grunt No. 1-contentment. Grunt No. 2-"Here I am." Grunt No. 3-"I'm in a bad mood." Grunt No. 4-"Let me alone." Nursing sows have special grunts for their piglets: Sow grunt No. 1-"Come and get it." Sow grunt No. 2-"Finish your dinner." Sow grunt No. 3-"Watch out, kids. I'm going to move and may squash...