Some painted Palestinian flags on their faces; others wrote Hamas on one cheek and Fatah on the other.
Tribal elders in Ghazni told us that they are "slapped on one cheek by the Taliban, and on the other cheek by the government".
Tribal elders in Ghazni told us that they are "slapped on one cheek by the Taliban, and on the other cheek by the government". They talked of extortion by the police, dysfunctional courts and rampant bribery in government offices.
Fellow Japanese Kohei Onizaki, equipped with swimming goggles, had a tomato painted on one cheek and a Japanese flag on the other.
Finally out of frustration, I sculpted an ass out of bread dough, put some big lips on one cheek, baked it, mounted it on a board, painted the lips red, shellacked it and titled it "Kiss mine".
There were equal sightings of Brady and Bledsoe jerseys, and every face with Bledsoe's "11" painted on one cheek turned to show a Brady "12" on the other.
There was a diagonal crease on one cheek as if he had been lying on it.
With that, Johnson smacked himself painfully hard on one cheek, then the other.
"But when they smite you on one cheek, turn the other".
And she tells us about the iconography of the tattooed tear many prisoners and ex-prisoners wear on one cheek.
His ice-cold stare, the raised scar on one cheek and his woolly jumpsuit with matching hat and pom-pom.
