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...weekly, as much for the security of having a mini-U.S.A. as for the discussions on the nature of the culture. Organized field trips explored various parts of the land from Kabuki theater to dawn fish markets. A tatami-mat coffee house near Ginkaku-ji temple that served saki and played early Dylan became an after-hours meeting place for many in the group, including the faculty...
Peruvian foot-warmers, simulated Ocelot skins, Russian borscht bowls, Garbo hats, pop neckties, Japanese origami kits, Indian temple candles, flicks of the forties posters, papier mach*e roosters, handcrafted jewelry and rings. Saki sets, Yugoslavian enamelware, mugs mobiles, and mukluks...
...water when she cries "Sock it to me!" Since she is presumably a little wiser now, the scripts go to elaborate lengths to get her to utter the deathless phrases. Now, when she appears as a geisha girl and says, "It may be rice wine to you, but its saki to me," kersplash...
...group of seductresses billed as The Global Girls troops through: Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish floozy whose secret weapon is flamenco; Lilo Pulver as a brusque, weepy vodkaholic making a case for the U.S.S.R.; Miiko Taka as an ah-so Geisha who offers back rubs and hot saki; and Elga Andersen as a French fille de joie who waives her diplomatic immunity in pajama tops. True love is the Belgian lass (Michele Mercier), a high-minded guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity and understanding, despite such gimmicks as a walk...
...headlong clatter of A Number of Things is occasionally slowed by pages of travel-book writing, and the jokes are sometimes tasteless as well as brash. Sir Manfred Schulz, for instance, and his "Vot's dat?" wife seem as xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted...