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...Much of Dedijer's book deals with the agonized awakening to the Russian threat. He describes, for example, his own change of heart at a Russian-Yugoslav soccer match in 1946. He noticed that whenever the referee was not looking, the Soviet players kicked the Yugoslavs in the stomach. Even so, he tried to persuade himself that this bit of foul play was somehow part of a grand Marxist scheme that he was not capable of grasping. "The conflict between the new Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union," he recalls, "was fraught with a strange kind of fire, like...
...wardrobe. Writer Johanna Davis has a few more doubts. Before starting to work on the week's assignment, she acquired a pair of satin patchwork hot pants and modeled them for her family. "I stood in what I thought was a fetching pose, sucking in my stomach and flashing a semigenuine smile," she recalls. "They just laughed." But Fashion Watcher Davis admits that she is usually not as trendy as the models and designers whom she covers. "I resisted pants for years until my mother, who is 73, began wearing pantsuits," she recalls. For hot pants, she sees...
...Army may travel on its stomach, but defeat or victory rides on the generals' epaulets. The Sukhomlinov Effect -named after the sartorially smashing but strategically stumbling World War I Czarist War Minister, V.A. Sukhomlinov-suggests that the winners wear the least flashy uniforms. In the current issue of Horizon, Scholars Roger Beaumont and Bernard J. James review the dress of military leaders from bedraggled American colonists to pajamaed Viet Cong. With the exception of the drably turned-out forces on both sides of the Korean War, the gaudier the officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained...
During the communication breakdown. Daley managed to improve his position by rolling onto his stomach. The maneuver soon was erased as Henson put him back on his back. To the strains of "quit screwing' around, Henson," he then proceeded to pin Daley...
...Company? Are they perhaps neutral? Oh, they might like a president with a more liberal image, but if keeping Guatemala defenseless against U.S. capital calls for a strong man like Arana, then he's get their hearty support. Goulden goes on to say that "both factions committed murders of stomach turning grisliness." Killing is pretty grisly, but so are all the babies dead of measles and malnutrition...