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...excited Japanese military buff is rifling through a neat row of U.S. Army field shirts. "From the Vietnam War," he enthuses, wide-eyed over the frayed and faded garments. "All genuine." The market-stall's proprietor, however, is more guarded than giddy. Dabbing his face with a handkerchief, a flustered Mr. Udom isn't keen on strangers asking about his traffic in military surplus. He's delighted to talk prices (700 baht, which is $17, for said field shirts; 1,000 baht for a U.S. Air Force flight suit), but where he gets all the merchandise from, that's strictly...
Later in the film, Peck embodies a kind of pacifist resistance. The white woman's racist father sees Peck with some blacks and spits in his face. Peck, with ferocious dignity, takes out a handkerchief, wipes off the insult and walks away--the victor by not fighting back. Good man to lead; tough act to follow...
...crying when she saw me,” he says. “She couldn’t believe it.” But O’Donnell had known that she would be emotional and stood ready to dry her tears with a handkerchief he had embroidered with her initials. He proposed through a microphone for all to hear. Shedding tears of joy, Forry accepted. And the whole drama was caught on tape, sure to be replayed at the wedding this summer...
Another man wearing a stars-and-stripes top hat with a matching tie, handkerchief and ribbon wandered through the crowd clutching a drink...
...around the papal travel schedule. John Paul, whose inveterate globe-trotting is a symbol of his papacy, looked exhausted and let others finish sermons throughout his trip to Azerbaijan and Bulgaria. But even small concessions to his illness can be painfully frustrating for him. When an aide retrieved a handkerchief that fell from his shaky grasp in Bulgaria, at least one reporter saw the Pope grab it back and "pound it hard against his thigh." And so he seems determined to go ahead with a pilgrimage to Canada, Mexico and Guatemala planned for July 23-Aug. 2. Dziwisz...