Pinned-Up Anger; Mwah!; Mexican Coffee vs. Midori

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PINNED-UP ANGER

   I did this Voice of America thing (with Avi Arditti) today.  I think Gerald Cohen and Jesse Sheidlower were also on past shows.
   In the NY studio, MSNBC was on the tv, with closed captioning.  Brian Williams (so the screen said) described the "pinned-up anger" in the Middle East.
   Pinned up?  Not pent up?  A few Playboy bunnies get everybody down??

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MWAH!

   Duane Campbell told me about a plant book (for "piggyback plant"), but that was missing from NYU, and it's off-site in the NYPL annex.  I requested some Dinah Shore clippings at the NYPL Lincoln Center Library, but that was off-site, too.  Then I requested CUE magazine--the 1975-1978 years that Columbia doesn't have (for "General Tso" purposes).  None of the NYPL pages could find where CUE was.  What a day!
   From TV GUIDE, 15 January 1977, pg. 27 (talking about Dinah's first show, in 1951):

   As suggested, she blew the audience a kiss.  But instead of the delicate way I had envisioned it, the result was a violent _M-m-mwah_!  As it turned out, Dinah was right--Dinah is _always_ right and her _M-m-mwah!_ became a well-loved and much imitated trademark.

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MEXICAN COFFEE VS. MIDORI

   "Midori" is included in the latest OED additions.  The first citation is a 1978 issue of the New York Times, but earlier, obviously, are the online trademark records of the USPTO.  Suntory claims first use in February 1978.  If you're going to enter a brand name, why not start with that?
   "Mexican Coffee" was all over New Zealand, too.  Why is "Midori" in and "Mexican Coffee" out?