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Gallo, wounded in a buttock, an elbow and his back, staggered toward the front of the café. He lurched through a front door and collapsed, bleeding, on the street. Carmella's screams attracted officers in a passing police car. They rushed Gallo to a hospital, but he died before reaching...
Without pity or grief or laughter, anger is neither moral nor healthy but simply dehumanizing. In Ionesco's scenario, just before the planet blows up, a man sitting in a café turns puce and explodes. Which is more destructive, Ionesco seems to ask, the atom bomb that swats all those flies or the chain-reaction anger behind it, disintegrating a man into his obsessions? In either case, the Ionesco moral is clear: in the 20th century, anger requires safety standards...
...largest depository of film and film history in the world, saw some of his pictures and invited him to Paris. Langlois showed the films, and for a short time Van Peebles was a cinecult celebrity. He stayed on in Paris, panhandling, singing, dancing and playing the kazoo in cafés for centimes...
...onie in the novel) stands just two blocks from the pastry shop. On the second floor is the bedroom where she cultivated her hypochondria to the point of becoming a bedridden invalid for 20 years. Later, her nephew emulated her example: writing feverishly at night (he practically existed on café au lait), sleeping during the day (with the aid of veronal), Proust rarely left his bed in a cork-lined Paris room during the last 15 years of his life. On Aunt Elisabeth's bedside table, gracing her tea saucer, is one of Mme. Benoist's madeleines...
Ellen Stewart, D.F.A., impresario of New York City's Café La Mama theater...