Word: sarong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karenni agent in Mae Sariang, a small Thai border town, has operated there for nearly 30 years, almost with the rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves...
...Years ago at Paramount, I'd find out about Road pictures from a street sweeper at the studio," recalled Dorothy Lamour, 60, who as a girl of 22 made the sarong famous. "He'd sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this...
...Hindus, who account for three-fourths of the refugees and a majority of the dead, have borne the brunt of the Moslem military's hatred. Even now, Moslem soldiers in East Pakistan will snatch away a man's lungi (sarong) to see if he is circumcised, obligatory for Moslems; if he is not, it usually means death. Others are simply rounded up and shot. Commented one high U.S. official last week: "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland...
...population of 58 million in the West. In Brit ish India days, the western reaches of what is now West Pakistan formed the frontier of the empire, and the British trained the energetic Punjabis and Pathans as soldiers. They scorn the lungi, a Southeast Asian-style sarong worn by the Bengalis. "In the East," a West Pakistani saying has it, "the men wear the skirts and the women the pants. In the West, things are as they should...
...unbuttoned mores of modern movies. "Call me a prude or a square," said Dorothy Lamour, 56, "but I'm not happy with a lot .of dirty movies. What we did was sex, but it was clean sex." As samples of this phenomenon, Dorothy cited her famous sarong, "which suggested nudity," and her love scenes "in the jungle with Ray Milland−all clean, bright and happy." Big-eyed Bette Davis, 62, on the other hand, likes the sexual integrity of many films today. "We would have given our hats to be honest," she said. "We were handicapped...