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...true that Mr. Humphrey has allowed himself to be entertained in a way that just does not befit an American President. I have read in the paper that Mr. Humphrey was a guest of the Red Chinese leaders at one of their so-called revolutionary operas. Now a ping pong tournament or a Chinese band playing American music is one thing, but this other behavior just strikes me as unacceptable and degrading. This is not common courtesy. These' are concessions...
...Henry Miller. 204 pages. Playboy Press. $15.50. Long before Hugh Hefner there was Henry Miller. Now at 79, the Dada of the sex revolution apparently keeps his own bunnies and when not chatting or nuzzling the cleavage of some visiting beauty, plays a steady defense game of Zen Ping Pong. This is a good example of coffee-table autobiography. It offers reproductions of Miller's corrected manuscript pages, and eight full-page color plates of the master's own sentimental paintings...
...contest winner was bland enough: Freedom's Futile Flight. A few of the other, somewhat more imaginative entries: Red Airing (second prize), Ping Pong Express, Tricky Dickie's Chicken Ship, Neville Chamberlain Express, Yellow Bird, Judas Jet, Air Farce One, Asian Flew, DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw and Go Mao, Pay Later...
Malcolm McDowell's excellent acting lends the proceedings a strong sense of reality that they hardly deserve. At the fadeout, mourning his lost love, McDowell is brought around to accepting life again by a couple of fellow patients who engage him in a game of Ping Pong. The metaphor is trite, mawkish, ultimately ludicrous-perfectly consonant in other words with the rest of the movie...
...Asians know you cannot play cricket, but Ping Pong is not your game either. Stick to baseball, Uncle...