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Bovino testified that merely touching an agent “could be assault depending on the situation. Spitting on someone could be assault.”

“You might call it a Metaphysical Spoof With Acrobatic Prelude, or you might not. The only general thing you can say about it is that it’s very bright and very funny, and sometimes rather touching.”

"It's truly touching," said Stone Ngai, 38, one of the organisers of an impromptu aid station.

In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is urging air travellers to dress better and be more civil - and it's touching a nerve at a time when many Americans consider air travel more frustrating than ever.