Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eleven dollars will buy a one-way air ticket from Athens to Crete, and still another unseen aspect of the Greek way: Candia's fragrant food bazaar, the Minoan ruins near Knossos, and the high Lasethi plateau, crammed with hundreds of white-sailed windmills. In any of the little plateau villages, a traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name...
...PLACE IN THS BAZAAR (233 pp.) -Alec Waugh- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Author Waugh's aim, reflected in his title, is to be the kind of storyteller he has encountered in the bazaars of Baghdad and Marrakech, surrounded by an absorbed audience squatting on their haunches. His own modest place in the literary bazaar seems assured so long as readers want to hear about far places where men are sorely tested by extreme situations, all told in simple sentences and short paragraphs...
...their cars. The first question a buyer now asks when he walks into a showroom is: How much below list can I get it for? Result: haggling is in its heyday. Sighs E.C. McAllister, head of his own Mercury-Comet agency in Dallas: "It's like an Arabian bazaar...
...spend the day "with myself." At 4 p.m. she has a half-hour bath, during which, "if I'm a good girl, I study the score." She has a solid meal at 5 because, with all the energy a singer needs, she can't look like a Bazaar model. "I never worry about my weight-you're going to look smaller from the audience anyway." (Leontyne Price does not look particularly small.) She carries a thermos of hot bouillon with her to the theater for steadying swigs before particularly difficult scenes that might "tensify" her. She usually...