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...bouzotiki records. And in Act III there is a court-martial, with the key kooks testifying, that resembles a Marx Brothers movie sequence scripted by Salvador Dali. The cook and Mr. General are both outranked in acting honors by John McGiver. He plays and looks like Captain Bligh in khaki...
...great shout went up as MacArthur stepped out of the White House 707 at Manila's airport, dressed in the spare khaki uniform of another era, wearing the faded, frayed cap he made famous. His salute trembled ever so slightly, but he had lost none of his flair for the Ciceronian phrase. "My life has been interwoven with yours for nearly sixty years," he said. "Here I have lived my greatest moments. Here I have my greatest memories...
...week after their military revolt, South Korea's generals were full of puritanical zeal. Khaki-clad troops with rifles patrolled the streets of Seoul, arresting jaywalkers and hauling prostitutes off to the cells. Caught dancing in a nightclub, 45 hapless young men and women were herded before stern military judges and sentenced to terms of up to a year in jail; when the police ran out of handcuffs, they lashed the prisoners together with ropes. To keep people at home nights, the authorities arrested 10,000 for violating the nightly curfew-including those who had to leave after dark...
Some of the many words Urdu has given to the English language are: khaki, pundits, kismet, pyjamas...
...clock every weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this...