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Every volume was a bestseller. The tenth, Rousseau and Revolution, won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize. Yet the very qualities that helped sell his books often earned the sneers of scholars. He gave history's eccentrics (Casanova, Caligula) more than their due. He was often glib ("Voltaire + Rousseau = Diderot"). On the other hand, he was capable of aphoristic wisdom that any academician would envy ("A nation is born Stoic, dies Epicurean...
Baby Love is almost always stoned. He rises late, plays basketball in the park or galactic-warfare games at the pinball arcade all day. If there is any money left over, he and Daddy Rich go to karate movies. He juggles four chicks with Casanova skill, and he makes enough from gambling and stealing to be a real "sportin...
Marcellino Casanova. Johnny-one-arm. Little Angel from Laslow Street. Cinderella. Names that sound like Damon Runyon. Lives that feel like William Burroughs. These are Garland Jeffreys' mystery kids, and the extraordinary music that he makes about them seems to come straight from their lives...
...evidence quickly mounted that the bank raid was only the first step of a plot against Spain's faltering democracy. After questioning the captured terrorists, Barcelona police hurried to a carpenter's shop in the Calle de Casanova. There they uncovered a newly dug, 10-ft.-long tunnel leading toward the Avenida Diagonal, a major thoroughfare along which King Juan Carlos and a huge armed forces day parade were to pass six days later. The shop had been rented by one of the bank raiders, Jose Maria Cuevas Jimenez, the one person to die in the police attack...
Cervical caps have a long and colorful history. Women in the ancient Far East covered the cervix with cups molded of opium or oiled silky paper. In the 18th century, Casanova advised women to use halves of squeezed lemons. The modern version was developed in 1838 by F.A. Wilde, a German gynecologist. It gained widespread acceptance in Europe but never caught on in the U.S., although it was thought to be as reliable as the diaphragm. A major reason: Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger championed the diaphragm...