Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy Canary Islands banana planter, he arrived in Paris at 21 to sell his father's produce. "I went out on one continuous binge for three months," he recalls, "and visited practically every cabaret, bistro and cafe in Paris. At 5 o'clock in the morning I usually turned up at the Halles [Paris' central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy...
...morning coffee break had become as deeply entrenched in U.S. custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...
...Rose Tattoo is about Serafina Delle Rose, whose husband-a lusty man with a rose tattooed on his chest-is killed smuggling narcotics on a banana truck. After his death, Serafina wildly exalts him into a legend, lives devotedly with his ashes, cuts off all outside life. Then, slowly and agonizingly, she is forced to recognize that her husband was unfaithful to her. Through another banana-truck driver, "with my husband's body and the face of a clown," she is brought back to life, and set free to love...
...Rose Tattoo is effective theater. David Diamond's incidental music is pleasant, and Boris Aronson's set appealing. Maureen Stapleton gives Serafina a crude, harsh vitality. But too often the play itself is lush, garish, operatic, decadently primitive, a salt breeze in a swamp, a Banana Truck Named Desire...
...ploy. Almost everybody sooner or later comes to a point in an examination where he ought to cite a reference. Of course, if he comes upon the rare occasion where he knows the name of a book, then all is fine. He just states the reference thusly "As Professor Banana says on page 207 of his work, 'The Dynamics of Idiocy.'" It really doesn't make any difference whether the page number is right--the grader certainly won't look it up. As a matter of fact, it is often wise to pick a couple of one line quotes...