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Even his much-publicized arrogance had its engaging aspect. He dropped names so often that floors threatened to collapse under their collective weight, but always with a pixie-ish wink that undermined the gravity of his statements and reduced them almost to an acknowledged selfparody. He bandied about words like power, influence, hiring and firing, always with himself on the business end of the proposition, yet his flamboyant style seemed to belie the cold calculation of his rhetoric...
...same time, the regime has been pressing an anti-Western campaign on various levels-some frivolous. Peyton Place, charged with having a "petit bourgeois consumer mentality," will wink off Belgrade TV screens next month. The movie Patton was abruptly banished from Belgrade theaters last week for "glorifying the U.S. army of aggression." Yugoslav youths who used to wear G.I. fatigues and U.S. Army insignia are now being urged to switch to "the Partisan look" -belted tunics styled after the uniforms worn by Tito's World War II guerrillas...
...those of a first reading book seem to a child. Each sentence stands larger than life, and is stated so definitely and with so much technical precision that it seems to be irrefutable, material fact. It is the sort of language that never smiles, but occasionally seems to wink: "What first impresses in this gloom is the sensation of yellow it imparts not to say of sulphur in view of the associations...
...them gallivanting in the woods, shouting political and philosophical slogans to each other that clearly mean a lot to them, and by implication should mean a lot to us. We are expected to wink knowingly at this badinage and say to ourselves, "don't we, too, have such warm and intimate joking relationships with our friends. "But after the scene, we know nothing more about them than we did before...
...damaged in shipment. Repairs so far have cost Balch $60,000, but in some cases he is able to get higher prices for the hammered cars. "After all, you've got to pay more for a car that has been in show biz," says Balch with a devilish wink. He claims that many customers ask specifically for the repaired cars, and a few have even insisted on buying his props, dents...