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Pachinko-byo is an ailment new to the annals of medicine and peculiar to Japan. Its symptoms: blistered fingers, a sprained thumb and eyeballs that jiggle in their sockets like popcorn kernels tossed on to a hot griddle...
Others have achieved eminence in education by following daring new formulae and sticking to them in the face of constant attack. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb, and the easy answer. He reached it by the exercise of courage and integrity, by constantly affirming in practice his faith in the individual and in the necessity of his freedom, by encouraging and demanding honest of his freedom, by encouraging and demanding hones and unfettered seeking after truth...
Affandi never learned to use a palette, dislikes brushes. Instead, he squeezes paint on to his thumb, then smears it around the canvas. He will often spend a week studying a subject, but the actual painting seldom takes longer than 90 furious minutes. "After about an hour," he says, "I usually feel my emotions declining. It's better to stop then. The painting is finished...
...thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill, using his strong, ratlike tail and the opposing "thumb" on his hind feet to scrabble after autumn persimmons. He cannot hang by his tail as long as legend would have it, but he does "play possum" with stubborn persistence when in danger...
...Kaye's performance in the title role. Looking a little like a Danish Walter Mitty, Comedian Kaye foregoes his familiar scat type of clowning to give a gentle, appealing and restrained characterization. Whether he flies a kite, sings to an inchworm, talks to a dog or transforms his thumb into a little girl, Kaye succeeds in conjuring up something of the charm of a child's storybook world: that magical realm of slippered kings, pouting princesses, dragons and serpents, flowers that waltz, and porcelain figures that fall in love...