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...Matey Tone...
...more significant force is a new style of sensitivity or perhaps paranoia. It is best articulated by Comedian Flip Wilson. In his familiar television routine, a dialogue is going famously, fairly humming with jolly good will. Then the other party touches Flip-a friendly clap on the shoulder, a matey hand on the sleeve. Wilson recoils like a Prussian who has been slapped. An expression of non-negotiable hostility does a slow freeze across his face. In a rising falsetto he cries: "Don't touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Wilson is not just self-mocking...
...barging into his Beverly Hills house for help. One of the wives is French: she cooks for him. One of the wives is Japanese: she massages his back with her feet. And one of the wives is a great big daddy-sized redhead named Jill St. John-a very matey lady with lots of black paint over her eyes. All she does is dance, dance, dance. Wicked Jill and the other wives cause Dean to have a nervous breakdown. Not that any of them have been sleeping in his bed; it's just that he is engaged to marry...
...recent shopping trip, my two-year-old daughter Robin would not leave the supermarket until I had bought her Soaky. When we got home, my wife informed me that Robin had two full boxes of Matey (a competitor's product...
Presumably, all was matey, once again between Indonesia's strong-willed President Sukarno and his disenchanted "Veep," Mohammed Hatta. They had been urged back together at an unusual assemblage of 150 top Indonesian leaders-including rebel colonels from the hill-all worried by the political disintegration of their country (TIME, Sept. 23). Basking in the joys of reconciliation, Hatta and Sukarno flew off together to "Indonesia's Arlington Cemetery" in Djokjakarta to purge their souls of rancor at the grave of General Sudirman, military hero of the revolt against the Dutch. For the first time since his resignation...