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...city at large, (buttressed by his visibility in and around City Hall and at every civic function where people watch to see who's there) Al has emerged as the friendly politician, the sort of guy you'd like to have dinner with at home, someone under whose thick political skin beats a warm human heart. Someone who's real...
...Symbolism is the thought of 1900," Art Historian Victor Beyer suggests in the catalogue, "while art nouveau is its gesture, its spasm." Even at this distance, one can sense how liberating the gesture must have seemed: an escape from the thick, relentlessly overstuffed world of Second Empire Paris into an imagery of free movement and rhythmic arabesque. The art nouveau line-whiplike, airy, eddying back on itself-was common to high art as well. A good example is Gauguin's portrait of the painter Roy, 1889, with its serpentine forms of background and hair (see color page...
...males. His darkest fears are confirmed when some of the patrons start winking at him, and one, Claude Perkins, launches repeated attacks from behind doorways and across corridors. Claude (Paul B. Price) is a "chubby chaser," and the ring of flesh hanging over Gaetano's belt is so thick he seems to be wearing an inner tube under his shirt. Claude is transported...
...manhood entirely safe, and in battling to preserve both, he stumbles across deranged characters like Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno), a busted-down Puerto Rican entertainer with visions of Broadway glory. So far, success has kept well ahead of her. Googie's problem, mainly, is her accent, which is thick enough to weigh on a scale. In her lust for fame and fortune, Googie mistakes Gaetano for a big producer cruising the Ritz to have a little fun. She decides to reform him and become discovered in the process. He, on the other hand, seriously entertains the notion that...
...make the frozen product, yogurt and stabilizers, plus any of dozens of flavors, are mixed in soft-ice cream machines (sales of which have been running 35% ahead of last year). Ten minutes later, a thick, soft, creamy swirl appears. Since the different brands-of yogurt that go into the machine vary greatly, so do the creamy swirls. Certain bacteria known as Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophi-lus are essential to the yogurt culture, yet there is no federal standard for the bacterial count. If the yogurt is pasteurized, as it sometimes is, the bacteria are killed. Freezing inhibits their...