Word: bags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the preparations for the Valentino funeral in 1926, Stanley blew into the Hotel Ambassador carrying a little bag. He knocked at the suite of Valentino's bereaved lover, Pola Negri, told the maid he was a physician and introduced himself to Miss Negri as a close friend of Valentino's. "Rudy would have wanted me to take care of you, my dear," Miss Negri later reported his saying. "You are very thoughtful," she replied...
...When he saw the prints, he decided that sketching was futile. "These things are so full of fantasy there is absolutely no sense in trying to paint them," he says. "I realized that no artist could have made them better." His wife Hilla, a trained studio photographer, acts as bag boy, lens handler, bookkeeper and darkroom technician. Together, they have dedicated themselves to recording what they call the "anonymous sculpture" of the Industrial Revolution. In the past few years, their photographs have been displayed in museums in Germany, Holland, Denmark...
...confidently told me that he had pushed so many coarse bills through the hundred dollar window that he needed his binocular case to carry away all the tickets. He felt that the race was in the bag, and he was proved eminently right...
...whenever possible. But, as if purposely profiling her subject rather than attempting to present a full portrait study, Miss Kramer carefully avoids making any critical judgments on the quality of his work. Perhaps she is right in doing so, for personality rather than poetry is certainly Ginsberg's bag...
...college students who spout it. The president of the Brewery Workers Union, Karl F. Feller, says: "A well-placed fist could be the welcome that awaits S.D.S. revolutionaries," and a Chicago United Automobile Workers' spokesman says, "Those kids couldn't organize their way out of a paper bag...