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...talking to his agent, occasionally reading a magazine, looking at her backward through a mirror or milking a cow, "Bobby Higgs" is handily beating an irate "Billie Jean Margret." Until she starts doing bumps and grinds, at which point he strips down to star-spangled shorts and starts a verbal rally. "I've a better forehand, backhand and much prettier legs," Higgs boasts. "Are those your legs?" lobs Billie Jean Margret. "I thought they were two obsolete road maps. I dig antiques." Smash. Game. Show...
...General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that has prompted President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to call Amin "a madman" and "a buffoon...
...acting on verbal instructions from the outside engineers that had been called in, I pried open the doors and got out. These engineers informed me that they had been called approximately five to eight minutes before, and that no one had told them that there was anyone in the stuck elevator...
...elevator to (a) find out if there is anyone in it, (b) find out if they are all right, (c) assure them that the problem has been reported and help is on the way, or (d), incredibly, as would have been sufficient in my case, to relay simple verbal instructions...
...reality or in a scrubbed-up version of a turn-of-the-century world that feeds the nation's nostalgia for what it fondly-if erroneously-believes were simpler, better times. Setting aside the animated features, the typical Disney movie today is static, overreliant on low-grade verbal humor and ill-conceived comic situations-cars and chimpanzees that are almost human, which is more than you can say for the people who appear in support of them...