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...four months he worked in solitude. "It is going badly," he would tell friends at his favorite café in Aix. "It is this salaud Velásquez. If at least he was an intelligent painter. But no, it is Velásquez, with all that implies of everything and of nothing...
Ricochet. In Fort Worth, Shorty's Café resounded with gunfire because its owner hid his revolver in the stove and forgot to tell the cook...
...Negro intellectuals usually live separated from one another, and most have settled into French life in a way that is rare for their white compatriots. At moments of acute homesickness, an American Negro may stop at the Café le Tournon, a student bistro near the Luxembourg where he will find similarly afflicted friends, or-tempted by the thought of barbecued spare ribs, corn bread and deep-dish apple pie-he will drop into Leroy & Gabby's, near the Place Pigalle...
...acquired the temperamental tag," she says. "I felt persecuted. I like to tell the story of the Southerner who came up to me and said: 'Loved your playing. I had a Negro mammy myself.' I snarled back, 'So did I.' " She had trouble with café owners, lost much of her following, finally decided she had better change her act. Says Dorothy: "Instead of just sitting there and playing, I've added personality. I feel I'm a new Dorothy Donegan...
...Jones (Gary Cooper), a onetime gunslinger who has been improving his character by homesteading for two decades, sets out on a train for Fort Worth to bring back a schoolteacher for his town. With him on the train are two other travelers with speaking roles-Julie London as a café singer, and Arthur...