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...Most Hong Kong thrushes are sweet vixens. Mui was different. Her large eyes, beaky nose and small, lurid gash of a mouth gave rise to another sobriquet: the Ugly Queen of Pop. That's a harsh way of saying that Mui was a throwback to chanteuse Bai Guang and other Shanghai "sour beauties" of the pre-Mao era. The sour beauty sang of love as a burden that made the sufferer superior. Mui was that survivor: battered but proud...
...still in school, I submitted a gag for the Party Jokes page, and they printed it. Here it is: ?The doting father came home one night and was shocked to find his daughter and his friends smoking marijuana. Pulling the stick of pot out of the girl?s mouth, he exclaimed, ?What?s a joint like this doing in a nice girl like you??? At the time I was tickled to have received $50 for 43 words. Today, I look back in chagrin, to see I was once so naive, I didn?t know ?joint? had a phallic meaning. More...
...Wolfowitz, could not be more unlikely. Rumsfeld is a Cook County, Ill., politician, while Wolfowitz would be more at home at the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate. That makes them the most interesting one-two combination this side of Bush-Cheney. If Rumsfeld is the face, mouth and strong right arm of the war in Iraq, Wolfowitz--the intellectual godfather of the war--is its heart and soul. Whereas Rumsfeld talks about Iraq like a technician, Wolfowitz sounds more like a prophet. Says a close associate of the deputy's: "Paul asks himself every...
...manhandled by imperialist troops could well have become a rallying figure not just for former Baathists, but for Arab nationalists in Iraq and outside it. Whatever posture Saddam takes in whatever tribunal he appears in, he will likely never live down that image of him scruffy, defeated, opening his mouth for the doctor like a good boy. "It's like he's a goat," one Iraqi delighted, watching the images of Saddam being searched...
...swing of the pendulum was halted and the Minutemen fell into their previous state of disarray. Desperate to reknot the score, UMass struggled to string together an effective attack, while Harvard returned to its aggressive play in the offensive zone, swarming the goal mouth and forcing several solid saves from Warner to keep his team close...