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Italy's wispy President Antonio Segni had just arrived for the grand opening of the Venice Biennale when a scruffy little man with a ragged little beard rushed up to him and dramatically emptied the contents of a briefcase at his feet. The President's guard, ever on the alert, quickly drew his sword, but all that he saw was a half-dozen grey mice scampering for safety. It turned out that the intruder was a Venezuelan artist who has a passion for mice, paints pictures of them again and again, and thinks that the Biennale neglects them...
...hears new aphorisms from his bene factor's mistress ( Nadia Gray). "Life is an auction." she tells him. "Men put up their muscles or their brains, women their bodies. It's all the same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...
From five to ten students, however, have currently been working in Hughes' Harvard Square for Hughes" organization is presently contemplated. No "Harvard Students for Hughes" organization is presently contemplated, but the candidate has offered to pay room and beard for students who will help to gather petition signatures a few days after spring exams...
...revolutionaries. Fidel already had a woolly-minded vision of himself as a Marxist messiah, and he apparently believed that the professional Communists had something to offer his revolution. When Castro came down from the hills to Havana in January 1959. Rodriguez came too, proudly sporting the rebel beard he still wears. Once more the Communists, in their search for power, had found someone to hang onto...
With each passing year he became more cantankerous, his beard more scraggly, his clothes more rumpled. He had his shar of French visitors-but they were mostly adoring women, whom he would feed tiny onions coated with cheese. His buyers usually came from abroad. When he sent some sculpture to the Salon des Independants in 1920, it was rejected as phallic In all the years that he worked in Paris, the National Museum of Modern Art bought only three of his works...