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...Grazed Lip. Typically, the Shah glanced warily from side to side, and it was well that he did. His gaze met that of a young conscript named Reza Bakhshabadi, who held his submachine gun at a level lower than usual. The Shah, trained in arms, was well aware of the technique of firing an automatic weapon: start shooting low and then raise your aim-if you take dead aim the kick of recoil makes shots go too high for accuracy...
Assassination is endemic to Iran. In recent years, two Premiers have been murdered as well as a court minister. The Shah dodged bullets in 1949 when a man disguised as a cameraman opened up with a pistol: one bullet grazed the royal lip, another pierced his military cap, the third ripped off an epaulet...
...dark bar after a hard day at the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale training camp. But Male Model Jerome Modzelewski, at the next table, says somebody tossed a wild pitch at his girl. Maris says Jerome kept damning the four Yankees. Anyhow, Modzelewski wound up with a badly cut lip, eleven stitches and the distinct impression that Maris was going for 61. He charged Roger and Clete with assault and battery. Impossible, says Roger, who has only clouted one over the fence so far this year, "I thought everybody knew I'm not much of a spring hitter...
When Vadim tires of treating sex as a naughty joke, he pads episodes with excursions into screwball farce. Playwright Jean Anouilh's scenario seldom seems funny, perhaps because the laughs are lost in the dubbed English version. Frequent close-ups make accurate lip synchronization impossible, and the flat, disembodied voices set up a sound barrier. It is a bit like watching dancers whirl through a Viennese waltz while the band plays Yankee Doodle...
Virna arrived in Hollywood with just three pat English phrases ("Is necessary?" "Is possible?" and "Poor Virna!"). But she was ready. "This side is too perfect," she told the cameramen about her right side, the one with the mole below the lip. "This one is more interesting," she said, turning portside to. And who taught her that lesson? "I and me, and that's enough...