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...Wicked Swish. The first number was from a century-old skit called The Three Encounters, in which a suspicious innkeeper crept into a knight's room at night, determined to kill him. What followed turned into a riotous pantomime. The two men groped toward each other as if they were in inky darkness, making fearful swipes with enormous, curved swords. The antagonists' darted, pivoted and leaped over each other while the reedy tones of a Chinese fiddle underlined the wicked swish of a snickersnee, and the soft boom of a gong gave sound to the sensation of naked...
...sukiyaki. Enter a messenger: a pretender to the throne has appeared. Is he or is he not the emperor's true son and heir? The baron will find out-or will he? Boinnng! A knife sprouts in a post beside his head. Swish! Thirty assassins, black-robed like torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same...
...Poland." She lives on yoghurt and corn bread, scurries home each night to her lonely, thimble-sized flat, and keeps telling herself that Paris is wonderful. But the only Paris Kristina knows, the goldfish bowl of the "Maison Deschamps," she hates. Through its ornate rooms dart and swish mannequins, sellers, fitters, designers and spying competitors. To Kristina the whole place is as zany and false as the brassiere on the statue of the sphinx in its show window...
...these assaults spanned a wide spectrum of religious unorthodoxy, social snobbery and sexual abnormality, but since the war, the University's critics have increasingly focused on the Communist issue. In recent months, the phrases "a smelly mess" and "a haven for Fifth Amendment Communists" have mostly replaced "the swish across the Charles" and "Harvard-snob" in the public's mind...
With another swish of the revolving door, RKO last week lost its two remaining top officers and was left with a board of directors of only two members. Just three weeks ago, Chairman Arnold Grant forced the resignations of President Ralph Stolkin and one director who had been in & out of trouble for their punchboard and other activities (TIME, Oct. 27) before they bought control of RKO from Howard Hughes. Last week Chairman Grant, who had been hired at $2,000 a week by the new owners to run the company, turned in his resignation. Out with him went...