Word: kissoff
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...have reached such a frenzy that the bearish Russian ambassador de Sadesky has been admitted to the top secret chamber, spy camera and all. Peter Sellers appears again, this time as the balding President Muffley, a sort of Mister Rogers with backbone, who is determined to keep Russian Premier Kissoff from executing a retaliatory strike. Surrounded by hard-core war-mongering generals, his touchy-feely Red Line conversation with Kissoff, the missile attack blinking ever closer on the Big Board behind him, seems surreal. "Yes, I am sorry," he soothes, "I'm capable of being just as sorry...
Gessner never made it to Cuba. He needed a passport to get out of Mexico, but by the time he was able to get one, the Russians had decided he would not be of much further use. His final kissoff was a princely 100 pesos-$8. Gessner drifted south, was arrested in Panama City by cops because he had no registration papers. U.S. authorities quickly took custody of him as a deserter...
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