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...reveals himself best by his pungent use of language. Rather like Nikita Khrushchev, he likes to draw on folk tales and proverbs to contrive devastating metaphors against his opponents. He is also fond of quoting from classical Chinese literature. In a 1959 meeting, he cited a Han Dynasty poet to belabor his colleagues for their laziness and love of luxury: "When one travels in a carriage or sedan chair, the body begins to decay. Women with pearly teeth and false eyebrows are the axes that cut down the body's vitality. Delicious meats and fatty foods...
...salt; it isn't black." She and Brown finally stopped talking altogether. The picture was execrable. But it cost only $6 million and raked in money. Another south-of-the-border oater, Bandolero, gave Raquel the opportunity to demand of Dean Martin, "How duss hay man get to be han hanimal like ju?" Such lines at least scotched rumors that Raquel was a crypto-Chicano; her accent was pure Hollywood...
...least 14 minority nationalities. Some 4,000,000 are Uighurs, descendants of the 9th century Turkic invaders, and 600,000 are Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Tadjiks. Divided by customs and heritage, the various minorities nonetheless are united in their hate of their present masters, who first penetrated Sinkiang under the Han Dynasty...
SKOWHEGAN, ME. Lakewood Theater. Essentially a family album of George M. Co han's music, George M! gives its regrets to Broadway for an era that has passed; it's the sort of show to which the audience comes already humming the songs, most of which hold up remarkably well...
...TIME'S Saigon contingent, the little time they spend in the villa at No. 7 Han Thuyen is a welcome change from the workaday hazards they share with the troops in the field. All the rooms are air-conditioned -when the power does not fail. And more important, correspondents can send their copy over one of the few direct press communication links with New York, via radio to Manila and then cable...