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...time." No one doubted his word. The illegitimate son of a proud Spanish officer, he was urged to make the army his career; instead, he deserted when he was drafted, hid out in Barcelona with gypsies, petty thieves and the hungry artists who met at the IV Gats café. On the side he studied painting and sculpture...
...myself, but the attendants held me. I dressed myself and the attendants came after me with the chair, but I insisted on walking. There were moments when my legs felt like jelly; I felt I'd never make it. but I did. And I stopped in the nearest café for a Pernod. I was ravenous...
...possibilities of escaping oneself. As an artist might rush to his easel to sketch the characters he had encountered in a day, Chaney would go home to his makeup kit and superimpose upon his own flesh the faces he had studied in police courts, water front dives and cafés. With putty and plaster, collodion-created scars, false teeth, wigs, facial clamps, cotton stuffing and rubber dilaters, Actor Chaney would be somebody else - an art he found most expedient in the days when the studios made their daily castings at first glance and strictly according to script-dictated types...
...francs last year to 61,000 francs two weeks ago. From Hassi Messaoud and neighboring Algerian fields recently opened, there was now the promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells: 2.6 billion bbl.) Frenchmen sitting in Cafés du Commerce all over France, hoping that this wealth might cure France's chronic foreign-trade deficit and boost capital investment in North Africa, called it the "Miracle of the Sahara...
...Songs of Bobby Short (Atlantic LP). A witty and irreverent survey of standard amatory numbers (Speaking of Love, So Near and Yet So Far) by one of the most offbeat café singer-pianists now operating. The style ranges from a belting, parade-beat Hooray for Love to a lilting Let's Fall in Love with a light stress on the leer in the lyric...