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...Shoe Polish and Tissue Paper. Finally Paramount accepted the choice of Brando - with a stipulation. He would have to go through a screen test. Though Brando had never lost his technical brilliance, he had not given a truly satisfactory performance in years. Still, asking him to go through a screen test was like asking the Pope to recite the catechism. But Brando was so eager for the part that, when he heard about the stipulation through the grapevine, he beat Paramount to the punch by suggesting a test himself. Coppola hauled a video-tape camera to the star...
...guide accompanied the family to the border clearing, a muddy field. He told them that the bridge located across the clearing lay in Austrian territory. "We just walked across toward the bridge," Tatrallyay recalled. "My mother lost a shoe containing old gold coins...
Until the final communique, his negotiating sessions with Premier Chou En-lai were kept entirely secret so as not to jeopardize the delicate talks, as Nixon later explained to the press. No leaks escaped to upset the routine, no emotions exploded to disturb the surface tranquillity. There was no shoe pounding, no confrontation of raw power, as occurred at the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. There was none of the Big Daddyism that Lyndon Johnson exhibited in 1966 at his Asian summit in the Philippines. Security was not obtrusive; crowds did not have to be controlled because they rarely gathered...
There are students learning acupuncture and hair cutting. Barbers had been looked down upon in the past, explains the guide, but not now. Young boys are not only taught to cut hair but to do it proudly. In one room a girl helps repair shoes; she is a particular example, according to Wang. Shoe repairing was a shameful trade in the old days, and girls "did not like the smell of the shoes. But they have come to realize that what smelled bad was the bourgeois thinking. What has the best smell is the thinking of Chairman Mao." The girl...
...play went on. Bok signalled for a time out, but the referee did not notice the injury, and Bok pulled himself to the sideline where he took off his left shoe and sock. Play was finally halted and Bok hopped to the side of the court...