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...first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...
Incitement to Suicide? Among other things, they objected to the movie barber: 1) stropping his razor on his necktie in preparation for suicide ("a provocation to commit suicide with professional instruments," said the barbers); 2) absentmindedly tying a restaurant napkin around Li's neck, barber-chair fashion; and above all 3) placing his hands on a lady customer's shoulders (Chinese barbers consider this a grave breach of professional ethics). "We will fight unto the death," declared the barbers, "until the insulting parts of the film are cut." They threatened to smash the film studios, raid theaters showing...
...main drag a mouselike little man turned his palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
...scene, a corner table downstairs at "21." TIME Correspondent John Doe nervously approaches Gibbs, who is deeply involved in a plate of pompano and a bottle of Berncasteler Doctor '34. . . . Doe asks Gibbs what he's going to say in his review. Gibbs wipes his mouth with napkin, stares at Doe somewhat frigidly. Doe says, "Will it be something like, Quote I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which...
Then they bowed. As the Americans filed out, Mayor Kihara handed each of them a New Year's gift-a tablecloth and napkin set-from the "City of Hiroshima...