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...some Chinese are culturally starved for something more nourishing than party propaganda. Although few dare openly challenge the mindless conformity imposed by the Communist regime, the spread of irreverent songs and jokes indicates that the Chinese sense of humor is irrepressible. One favorite device is to sing love lyrics, sotto voce, to the tune of solemn hymns to Mao Tse-tung...
...their favorite blood sport: the ferocious, nonstop struggle for power and prestige between their Premier and their Defense Minister. For the past three years virtually every Israeli domestic, foreign and military policy issue has engaged the two contestants in loud public attacks and counterattacks, which occasionally subside into sotto voce snarling and low-key muttering...
...Grandfather Al beaming down from the dais. When the drivers were testifying, Deadpan Al nodded gravely at their protests, seemingly recording it all into his store of wisdom. But when catcalls and boos started to swell in the gallery, Ferocious Al glanced, disgusted, toward the City Clerk and said, sotto voce, "They sure can turn on you." He might have said, "I sure can turn on them...
...voice of Self 1: it is their husband. They are poor Self 2. Such descriptive phrases as "cow," "fat banana" and "pregnant elephant" can be heard on the most elegant courts. "Move your ass" appears to be a not infrequent admonition?not to mention a stream of not so sotto voce expletives, four-letter words and hectoring commands: "Run! Run!" "Hit the ball. Hit the ball!" "Up! Up!" and, maddeningly above all for women partners, "Outta the way! I got it! I got it!" Even where the female partner is the more skilled, men seem to have a disconcerting habit...
STAGE WHISPERS. Hard by the upper-level entrance to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station is a stone arch. By stationing themselves at one corner and partners some 50 ft. away, visitors can articulate messages sotto voce-and have them delivered with the fidelity of a CB receiver...