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...normally effete press bristled with outrage; virtually every major newspaper attacked Mikoyan's meddling. Headlined one: JAPAN GETS RUN-AROUND FROM ANASTAS. Tokyo's Shimbun warned that Mikoyan's "parrotings of repeated threats by Premier Khrushchev" were no way to "make any sales." In a slap at a visiting statesman that was unprecedented for the polite Japanese, Ikeda's party issued a statement branding Mikoyan's threats as an "interference in Japan's domestic affairs." It went on to hint that Mikoyan might very well go home emptyhanded: "Utilizing an expansion of trade through...
Charlie Chaplin once explained: "When I walk right up and slap a grand lady because she gave me a contemptuous look, it is really right. -They won't admit it, but it's right, and that is why they laugh. I make them conscious of the reality of life. 'You think this is it, don't you?' I say. 'Well, it isn't, but this is-see?' And then they laugh...
...other cultures, this simple admiring social gesture might have earned no more than an unappreciative slap. But the Tolais have been nursing a grudge against the Sepiks for years-ever since the Sepiks began migrating from the New Guinea mainland two decades ago and rose in status as laborers around Rabaul. The pinched tribeswoman called her cousin to avenge her insult. A Sepik pitched in to help the pincher. Soon it was tribe against tribe. Tolais with white-painted faces armed themselves with baskets of stones and heavy sticks. The more imaginative Sepiks stuck hibiscus blooms in their hair...
...need only be added that at one point Pidgeon is forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...
...After facetiously broadcasting a proposal to partition Washington and to garrison "East Washington" with German Democratic Republic troops, Chief Radio Propagandist Eisler found himself afoul of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, who seemed to take the suggestion seriously. After explaining himself, Eisler took to a local newspaper next day to slap his own heavy hand, admitted that Ulbricht "told me I should have my head examined...