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Later in the debate when the Premier declared that he represented the State of Israel, Meir Peil interjected: "Oy!" Begin turned on him once more: "Oy and oy to this heckling. I understand it hurts you, but it will continue hurting you for many years." While several members shouted "Amen," Peil shot back: "I hope [he] will reach the age of 120 but not be the Premier for a long time." By session's end, Israeli television viewers might have been hoping for a peace plan for their Knesset...
...thing for Accra. So instead, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Shirley Temple Black, 46, jogged a local high-life stomp before a delighted crowd. En paste for less than three months, Shirley has already started coming to grips with local tribal languages, tossing off "akwaaba " (welcome in Twi) and "oy-iwala donn " (thank you in Ga) without even a hint of her notorious childhood lisp. Resident Americans who greeted Shirley with skepticism now call her a solid plus for Uncle Sam. Said one Ghanaian official happily: "It's good to have a famous public person here...
...beauty of a pun is in the oy of the beholder. Take Peter DeVries. "The things my wife keeps buying at auctions are keeping us baroque," he writes. And "Last night I dreamed of a female deer chasing a male deer in the mating season. . .a doe trying to make a fast buck...
...kind of emcee for United Nations Day. Leland Moss' Estragon seems to have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...
...sigh oy enjoy plying "im," Rosewall says. "E wins so mooch i's bludy discouraging...