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...Champ's fans know and loathe so well. The father, says Olsen, is a tiny, mercurial man "whose arguments take the form of loud outbursts accompanied by agitated wavings of the arms; he stutters and swallows and backs up and repeats and runs into the bathroom to spit. He has no speech defect except an uncontrollable urge to be heard right now." The Clays have had a stormy marriage, and most family members believe that their battles, which often were refereed at the local police precinct in Louisville, contributed to young Cassius' wavering hold on his emotions. Today...
...Dogs or Russians. In Peking, thousands of Chinese ringed the Soviet embassy with a wall of hate. Any Russian, or presumed friend of a Russian, who approached was instantly plastered with spit, stones and invective. At night, bonfires on the embassy grounds cast tortured shadows of Soviet leaders hanged in effigy-Kosygin included. The 170 Russians who remained in the embassy were supplied with vodka and beer, bread and soup sent via air from Moscow and then carried in by East European and even Western diplomats who daily braved the Red Guard gauntlet. The Russians even filled their swimming pool...
...modern woman's instinct for the male jugular, Beclch ends as a form of social parable on black Africa's expulsion of cruel, exploiting whites. Liberally scatological in its language, the play uses four-letter words as fashionable credentials. They seem to show that the author can spit the raw verbal gristle of experience at the audience coolly, and strictly for laughs...
Cynical/Rabbinical. To watch the twelve features in the series is to watch Hollywood at its brilliant best and its wilted worst. Her earliest appearance is in Office Blues at 19, when, in spit curls and bee-stung lips, she boop-a-doops: "I hate to urge a man/But he acts like a clergyman . . . I'm so cynical/ He's rabbinical...
...will be entirely surrounded by South African territory and is heavily dependent on Verwoerd's economy since thousands of Basuto regularly flock to South African gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor...