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John Nicolson slides naturally into the role of the artist at work, because he has ripped off the mannerisms of several members of A-World cafe society. As the father of the Bliss family, he is quietly and yet severely perturbed by any distractions in his work." He puts the least stress on Anglicizing his speech, despite an ethnic advantage; the rest of the cast ought to have followed his example...
...last evenings, the Beaver had gone into a cafe on the champs. Elysees--the Rond-Point--and I was waiting outside for her seduced by that new, added discretion which after dark gives the cafes the clandestine look of brothels; seduced by a sky that was taking an age to fade away and a few precious stones attached to the gas lamps which shone without illuminating-by a whole night blue and filled with whisperings, which brought summer to mind. And suddenly I was overcome by a kind of toy at the thought that I alive was there in that...
...most people, life's basic necessities are satisfied, but anything more--a cup of mocha in a cafe, a second pair of shoes--is a luxury. The per capita income is about $125, less than a fifth of that in neighboring Thailand. Government workers earn monthly salaries of between 200 and 500 dong--worth no more than $55 even at the official exchange rate. Housing is free for civil servants: Nguyen Than Tan, 24, a Foreign Ministry employee, shares a 10-ft. by 12-ft. dormitory room with three other men. Food is subsidized, but rations are meager. Officially...
...Minh City, the authorities have eliminated most of the druggy, decadent excesses, yet the city is still frenetically commercial. At the Cafe Givral, the Rick's Bar of wartime Saigon, a superb French-bread sandwich and cool citron presse are still available. Money changers, prostitutes and all kinds of small-time wheeler-dealers flourish, albeit rather more discreetly than ten years ago. North and South, Coca-Cola is for sale, but the black market stalls of Ho Chi Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy...
...cars. "From the first day," says Missie Koche, manager of a Waldenbooks in an Atlanta mall, "it's been a best seller. Everyone seems to like it, not just the business types. There must be something about it that makes it magic." Similarly, at the Harvard Book Store and Cafe in Boston's ultra-yuppified Back Bay, Manager Michael Bills says that "at first, it seemed mostly executive types were buying it. Then it caught on, and you could feel its popularity...