THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1990.
Isn't it familiar
this
new look
from the East
BY MAUREEN CLEAVE
W JESTERN men have always had a precious, romantic view of Japanese women. Through geisha-tinted glasses, they see them as dove-like, compliant, admiring and so very obedient.
They are all little smiles, fluttery movements and modest downcast eyes. They pick things up for you. they rub soothing oils into your body, they ask no ques- tions and they always look benutiful, sit nicely and smell of almonds.
Their clothes ara exote,
Thanksgi the Japanese still their enoting is telectable, make their magical historical and their faces are sculptured m, they are breeding a new mursts which
all but and it too eternal devotion,
Jemale stat.
contrai
and
Girl
Western wives friends have always been slight ly marked by this rosy view. And so, for them, the inereused number of Japanese fires to be seen over here marks a salutary change. They signify. I am certain the death of that old demure oriental rivaj,
Talia type of
Gone are the smooth, dusky hairstyles shaped like cottage leaves, the swaddling kimonos, the dilaty impping feet, lustend the sexpots of Japan come as sexy us our own native brands
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Japanese Alm stars face the camera with big blatant pro- vocative smelles. Their hair-d I does look rather curiou ranges from the bouffant and
the beatnik to luxuriati
codes of curls.
No longer do they
They
CVIN-
lotter
Wow!
round in duinty little clogs, but shoes with stuny hesis. stiletto Bennuda shorts and Swimsuits just like the rest of us, and sometimes only the bottom half of their bikinis.
Two-edged
They Con be seen pluying rowdy strip games, stealing each other's boy friends and swimming underwater in dimsy garments. They shout, argug and answer back just like our own girls,
It seems as though there is a thick layer of Holly- over the camera lonecs. Japustete woners must now meat us our own ground.
and in our own native way. Alas, I am afraid the victory From now on. their appeal ision is two-edged. for while the international grounds. "
Japanese girl is brush and
There isn't
much orientat
flattery in
Kyoka izumi's glance, With the Berdot kist caris
and that calcotating look, she
suggests Madame
Batterfly with ber wings -pulled off.
onl
the
sercon seductive
western/sation extends further.
the 110
extremely The girls hard, earning perhaps Jess than ours, but making so ranny. Aires year that they end up by being just as eleh.
work
Ilves even, Japan.
apparevity.
In
Japanese film stars. I under- stand, never have tantrums, ure never temperamental. The lucky director
is bowed to by his leading ladies,
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far from
As yet, they aro being international
und stars little is known of their private
Jeremy Campbell looks at Besieged in
TELEVISION
Strange-the battle
that the loser won
RIC
en
He even declared that he was not too well disposed toward the tradition that puts the
Queen at the lead of the Church England.
It's almost too much to bear- to think they can equal our own lush beauties on celluloid and you remain the essence of feminine gentility off the rereen.
--(London Express Service.)
Guantanamo Bay
"
Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
No American in Guantanamo
by is allowed to go outside
THE Caribbean spar. Christopher
kles; yacht sails are white
sun-
Dobson
There are two schools on the black and white base, where children play and learn together, Spanish, the language of Cubo,
in the sunshine; the hibiscus is blooming; the women drive with their tow-headed, |burned children up to the
super-market crammed is compulsory. with frozen steaks, and There is a golf course, yacht
fisiting. half dozen packed TV
dinners. Ing.
cinemas, pienle areas, baseball, There are 3,000 men football.
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The
New York. * ing against him and the day that he never dared to make here, 1,000 wives-and The base runs its own mimen- ICHARD NIXON was as good as lost. Yet he before or since.
was almost effervescent in his last won
his manner. counter with the televi-
It was without doubt a per- sion camera, but it was formance of stupendous bravery. too late to do him any At the sight of it his wife Pat abandoned the chromium-plated good.
composure she had maintained
It came in that cold, early through eight years of lime- morning moment of defeat light life and became a human when he descended from being and wopt.
the sumptuous Royal suite Even his old enemies were of his Los Angeles hotel to saying on that Wednesday morn
be told that California, the ing that nothing in his candi- State of his birth, was turn- day became him like the leav
ing of I
QUOTE
This personal triumph came ut a time when Nixon was con- vinced that all his old witch- craft had left him:
Ever since 1952 when he -by the Rev. George Wilkins, cried on the nation's shoulder Rector of Ascot Heath, Berk-In his Immortal "Checkers" shire, writing
parish speech, Nixon belleved that he magazine...
was impregnable on television.
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hly
the
base. For 18 months, the length of a single man's tour of duty. be la contined to base.
And the base, with all its
So what happens to
us now?
W the lower slopes of HEN they got to
Mount Kinangop they reined in their horses and dismounted.
The forest was thick all round, it here the deter
Lo
mined
settle.
Rays deckled
-Asks
the woman
from
ift
Valley
grandfath
"Then
my
The hot Kenya sun was brought out a cart from Englan low in the sky of the Rift and it was drawn by oxen, Valley by the time they had was 10 when the first car cam We works felled some of the trees for to the Kimangop.
from dawn to night. the foundations
us fro "Feeling safe with home.
the Masai, tho Kikuyu ver
and were gląd tured down work for us.
of
their
And the sun was just as low night after night by the time their days they had finished hacking elvilisation out of the countryside.
That was nearly 60 years ago, and when the Rays had Anlisted the place Tuluga they called Form.
A mission
Uncivilised
"They were at first a handh quite uncivilised. Thirty year ago my father provided a far and we al school for them. had a dispensary.
"We pushed the forest bad day, when m and the other
had his worke Now their granddaughter has father left the valley and traveled to inoculated against pollo, the London on a mission with as were 300 Kikuyu men, wome much determination as her pir- and children-some the gran
Or the ents and her grandparents at children
grandchildren the turn of the century.
those wi worked there first.
"With them 1 grew up. taught thely womenfolk in ti kitchen.
Sollly-spoken Mrs Billle Nightingale has made the long Journey to tell the politicians of Britak what it feels like to fear the less not only of a home and a living but a country which she and her children were burn - lend for which they have a passionate, undying affection,
She has left her own tour children and her husband back makes her in Kenya while she mission, so determined is she about li. And with come two other settlers,
grea
"It is not these people; wi want us to leave, but a handi of political agitators whom the fear.
"When Mou Mau came the was a plan to put all the fold Europeans in one place for the nightly protection.
"My
Mervyn Ra father, from the Wye Valley, did n + of leaving her have like the Idea
people,at nights. He called the Their aim is to persuade the together and explained and th Colonial Officer to change is said, 'We are all in Us. L policy about Kenya: to, prevent us stick together.' their lands being handed over du Africa and Africans with in-
dependence.
To prevent, they believe, the
magnificent facilities. cannot provide what sailors all over the world come ashore for-female company. The sense of being confined is also particularly galling to those Americans who al home think nothing of driving 60 miles to a cocktail party, the sea. whose favourite sport is just lo jump into their ears, and go.
Here they have their cars but only 65 miles of paved roads to use them on.
Essential
march of elvilisation back down "They arranged a rota syste the valley with them and into and five of them slept each nig
Savages
n
in the farmhouse. It' worke And not once does the merest but others, who trusted the flicker of a smile cross her face Africans, were murdered, it w as she talks to you about it. difficult to know what to do.
"We know we are essential the economy and stability of o Some, too, are worried that
country. And we are prepar their only contract with Cuba is
to stay. But we say the Brits not one of them wants araphed paper full of notices by eating Cuban bananas, when "Don't miss the barbecue and to stay.
they might be able to help heal
"MS grandparents and my Government, who told us to he quare dance," and
told me, "were out because we were essentie between America parents," she the breach
should indemnity us if our farm the and Cuba. For this is a besieged fortress. mont:ly coffee held by
there by encouraged to settle the British of I'm in an American outpost in Navy Wives Club will be held
Government si
are expropriated by an Africa:
Government, E dominated most of all we want to stay." hatos America, I'm in a part of will hold its meeting Tuesday."
were lighting. primitive savages, the world as full of fashpoints Drinks
The softly spoken womaz are cheap. cocktail
"There
го seltled were So almost the only man left as a sparking plug.
partius numerous. The old
at all in
Rift volce rose a little. "Yes, I kno the is the U.S.Africans
very great phys All around pre
It was a ralding there are minefelds Caribbean style wooden houses with a problem
115. We must 18 lough Marine
patrols, look-out are being replaced by long, low naval captain in charge of legat Valley then.
His problem: a ground between the Masa! and risks for
them. helicopters, and 'boats. Jets and, concrete ranch houses with eir- matters here.
Cuban's prize bull bolted into the Kikuyu, warships are at hund. It ought conditioning and oll
"Just as my parents and t The "If the Kikuyu came DerCKS the camp and run amok. to be a place alive with exclte- gadgets. ment, haggard with struin. Work is nut hard, danger is Marines were forced to shoot It, the Aberdares, the Massi drove grandparents faced them
then loped off years ago, The owner is demanding 200] them back and negligible.
to the escarpment dollars for the bull, and now across the
ta captain But the truth is that every the
has
decide nomadfe herding of their cattle: "My people hewed their land one in Ouantanamo Is dread- whether to pay up or sue him
out of the bush. With other Take a look over the battle-, fully, erashingly bored. And the for trespassing. ments.
main reason is that the ring of That is the extent of Cuban-settlers they built the road up arms and mines and Marines American warfare so far. One from Naivasha. The had
wheeled transport. that keeps Costra's men out also shot. One casually. One bull. keeps Americans in.
country whose Government on Thursday...Cubpeout pick One problem time when the only inhabitants
A hot one, that, but where were the vlawers? Some 19.8 per cent were watching profes- alons) football, 8.7 were listen Ing to Kennedy,
in
Nixon, in his finest hour ungrateful Los Angeles, was playing to a house of 83 million, No wonder he did so well,
Big brains
The election
coverage itself was massive and ruinously ex- penstye. It cost live radio and chains in New York alone nearly £11 million.
they
On the boil
Outside the mine belts and fences is the rest of Cuba where Castro, having nationalised most property on the American island. is battling with his own rebels with опе hand snd Russians in with inviting the
to
two
It was done less by human the other, Less than 100 miles brain than by electronic com from American territory. puters, each one as big as a
Across a narrow sen, the other He remained ro proud of this
London bus. THE Commandments have en-
way, are the always-on-the-boll couraged the Isise idas sprech, which he made with his
Humans, But, like the
Central American Republics. among people, especially the wife, and his rocker spaniel prevaricated most of the night,
Once did not matter young,
that the Christian Checkers to plead innocent to and Nixon's campaign manager anyone
(except the Central rollgian I series of Pro-the charge af misusing funds in Los Angeles Inuglied grandly Americans) if any of the States hibitions,
that he has celebrated the day and saith that he did not put his around that neck of the of its delivery on an anniversary faith in a handful of valves Americas had a revolution, lover since.
and a few carly trends.
That was before the Russians Only one of the cold stock started moving in on Cuba. It
matters lot now. monsters, the RCA's 501 stood So this fortress of Guantanamo
on to meth convic
that Kennedy would win, Bay ought to be exciting.
It isn't. And it isn't fear und the network trusted H
that makes these people woni to get nway.
wby James
Ambrose Brown,
colummist of the Sunday Times
of Johannesburg, after a reconi visit to London:—
THEY use to describe
l'ori
Disaster
Then came the disastre of enough to fade out the election Suld as the wickedest city the face-to-face debates, and results and cleur the air space l the world. To me, London, the Kanging audiences for his for Bugs Bunny and the Rifte- 1960, does not seem far beltind, personal appearanceS in the m
Vice his the visitor in the face last weeks of the campaign. wherever he goes.
-from the Police review on compensation for victims of crbac:-
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Though it was largely over looked in the Press. Nixon did make another Checkers speech a few days before the election.
Nixon was delighted with the fun and asked the nolwork to koop it in the tin until nearer the election date when it could voles. He WOR
[UKE -violim la left, much
often, with the feeling that harvest more he is the leant Important part sadly deceived.
of the performanov and the flem
a salutary thing.
Hubbub
The base is bigt
45 square miles of bays, ranges of hills, scrubland, and cactus.
Nearly 1,000 Cubans work here. There are two airstrips,
a bombing range, and a magni-
cent harbour.
here From America guards the eastern the Panana
It was not until 7.19 on Wed- approaches of nesday morning that NDC stated Conal.
of
fly and without qualification For the rest, it is a great big. that California bad swept to chunk of America plunked Kennedy and that the Senator down in the Caribbean. was elected.
The wives in the hot weather the American CBS walted live hours and 10 uniform minutes longer before reporting female, shorts and sports shirt, have д buge supermarket belief that the oriminal got When he campaign manager that Nixon had formally co to shop in with virtually every-
.with it. Retribution la brought him the audience coded victory, They are pled unfashionable, perhaps, Trut it in figures, he had this dismal news they dki now, since California is thing flown in from the US,
When I set out to fly to to report; Debbie Reynolds had still not safe for Kennedy, and wiped the floor with the Vice- a terrible hubbub has
I wondered been Guantanamo Bay,
women werd · holding President on another Channel, rained by the viewing public, how the Dobble's rating, 32.4; Nixon's who said that NBC woe nimply up under the strain of life in a 1.8.
Bred and wanted to go to bod, forirdas; wore they carrying on simply with the chores, hand- Evan Kennedy was fighting a Allogother 'It was cliff out their washing? #your #go to tert consumer publia:gorged with the sight of anger of an evening. Kennedy I forgot I wair derling with male politiciane In those last won the White House, but as Americans, ilave not seen a Hours. He appeared on Face the far as television was compala Hen of washing hanging DRICK does not neccsserlly Nation late in the campaign and it was Dick Nixon's moment of on a line, the wive all brought
-refloot quality. The cheapest | mode a surprising, feno-pying",
triumpli.
thate splendriers to Cuba) Papilda artialow are pospešitame: the best, Įing attace on religious prejudies
by New Zealand's State-spon- sored Consumer Service, set up
goody--
REPEL
THE
YANKEE
INVADE
FIDEL
modern
(London Express Service).
JUMPING THE GUN
FRANK MacGARRY
по
-(London Express Service)
BY JAK
NOT YET, MILLER, NOT YET."