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Then wait, and be ready for mystery; one U.S. executive corresponded for years with a Chinese official who signed himself, Get Smart-style, as M 903. A breakthrough can come when least expected. An American businessman was sitting in a dentist's chair in Hong Kong having a tooth drilled, when a messenger rushed in with news that a Chinese official whom he had been trying to get an appointment with for weeks wanted to meet him in the street immediately. Once invited to Peking, rule No. 1 is never go alone. The Chinese will ask more, and more...
...finished eleven hours later, feeling exhilarated. "I don't believe it," he said. "I've never done eight pages [of script] in one day." Margulies was also exuberant. "Working with Brando," he says, "was as improbable as having spent some time with the tooth fairy...
...look on your Grandmother's face when you present her with a carefully--wrapped, three--feet across chunk of purple brain coral. If this sort of thrill is worth 125 clams to you, go ahead. If you're a bit more modest you could send her a shark tooth necklace or even a complete shark jaw for a reasonable amount. But if Poverty is your middle name, you could send out a fleet of 99 cent Knobby Urchins to the candidates on your gift parade...
...women who had never given birth. The minor characters are equally memorable: Willalee Bookatee and his family, their black neighbors; the Jew, a peddler whose wagon was crammed with exciting goods; Mr. Willis, the stoic hired hand, who "moved as slow as grass growing" and once extracted a tooth from his own mouth with a pair of pliers. Even the animals - Daisy the mare; Sam the loyal dog: the two mules...
USED TO BE, life at the movies was faster, meatier, and larger than what we saw every day. The women were hotter, and their men were cooler. Enemies sought an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but friendship was thicker than blood. As Pauline Kael put it, it was "kiss kiss, bang bang...