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...that the boy has survived; but the miracle is repeated several times. Soon no Negro dares dive any more, and Ti-Coyo has a monopoly. Ti-Coyo remains singularly untroubled by moral scruples. With the money he makes, his family builds a new house with a tiled roof and Venetian blinds. Finally, when the great volcano of Mount Pelee erupts and leaves St. Pierre a cemetery of cinders,* Manidou saves Ti-Coyo and his family by guiding them to a safe shore. Love has repaid love...
...basic idea seems to be that it doesn't matter what the boys do to Strauss so long as they keep it lively. The rotating stage is decked out with a gay jumble of pagodas and minarets, Arab palaces and Venetian gondola landings. Costumes flash across the stage with colorful irrelevance: sultans look like Dalai Lamas, girls in Balkan skirts wiggle through Egyptian belly dances, men gotten up as Chinese coolies chant Viennese versions of Moslem music...
...more than 15 years, the venetian-blinded office among the second-hand stores had served as Democratic headquarters for Kansas City's Second Ward. The address, after Fifteenth Street was renamed in 1949: 716-718 Truman Road. But things had never been the same since the morning of April 6, 1950, when the bullet-riddled bodies of Gangster Charlie Binaggio, boss of the district, and his chief henchman, Charles Gargotta, were found there. At party meetings, somebody was always pointing out exactly where Binaggio's body was found (facing the big portrait of Native Son Truman), and where...
These days, however, De Pisis is no longer the eccentric Venetian man-about-town. Thin and aged beyond his years, he lives at a sanitarium outside Milan, for the past three years the victim of recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio. On favorable days when "the light is calm," he arranges still lifes of wild flowers, cherries, beans, clusters of garlic or withered leaves on a potting table, paints them against imaginary landscapes in paler, more wistful colors than his old gay studies of Venice and France. "They are a little...
Last week, as they have for years, high-powered Hollywood lobbyists were subtly slipping their wares into the screen's magic showcase. With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars...