On Sundays they would pile the family into their secondhand station wagon and gapeat the prosperous neighborhoods of Bellevue, Laurelhurst and Washington Park.
Rather than the austere integrity of a Ho Chi Minh or a Gandhi, nations nowadays gapeat the scandal of Thailand's "buffet cabinet" or Korea's "slush-fund" presidents.
At the Wagah border checkpoint in Punjab, picnicking families gather to gape and wave to Pakistanis waving back from the other side of the barbed wire.