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...Crist acknowledged the ensuing uproar: "You can be against God; you can be against Conrad; but brother, if you're against The Sound of Music, you're the lowest of the low. If I had beaten my mother to a pulp, strangled my small child, and slit the throat of my little puppy dog, I wouldn't have seemed so odious...
There is little sign of discontent with the squalid life. After all, poverty has been the pattern for centuries. Thousands of volunteers turned out patriotically to dig the slit trenches (Hanoi's air-raid shelters) that have been cut through the once verdant parks along the Red River and the capital's two lakes, reminders of Ho Chi Minh's grim determination to pursue his quest for control of all Viet Nam, even if it costs him his economy and the lives of his people...
...Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first...
...their own minorities, including Burma's harried Indians, Japan's Koreans and -throughout Southeast Asia-the overseas Chinese. Sixteen million Chinese live outside China, and everywhere their prosperity, diligence and clannishness arouse jealousy. Often they are accused of disloyalty to their host countries. Indonesians have stripped rich "slit-eyes" of their holdings, and Chinese in Laos are scornfully called "Mao Tse-tung." International airlines make sure that no Chinese stewardesses work on their flights to India...
...vistas of vastus lateralis is André Courrèges, 41, the brightest new star in the Paris firmament. A former disciple of Balenciaga, Courrèges (pronounced Koo-reige) set up his own shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in severe white dresses cut three inches above the knee and white, mid-calf boots open at the toe. The highflying hem was born. The French Vogue and Elle devoted so much space to Courr...