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...mirrors are a bore, as filled with eyes sometimes as tapioca and they have a blandly unpleasant way of catching the drinker unawares. The tin in Allegory made a witty tasteful substitute for reflection. Esthetically, the umbrella, too, was a brilliant stroke, its sharply precise form and cloth texture in telling contrast to the gleaming glass and crumpled metal
...foreign manufacturers at cut-rate prices in order to meet world prices. Domestic producers cannot buy this surplus on world cotton markets, are compelled by law to purchase artificially supported U.S.-grown cotton, which sells for 8? per pound more. This has helped foreign textile products to undersell domestic cloth goods, foreign textile manufacturers to increase textile exports to the U.S. by more than 550% since...
...himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani of Baroda, and countless men of the cloth...
...exhibition of Javanese art-beautiful hand-dipped batik cloth and finely worked silver-Sukarno smilingly asked Nikita, "Which would you like?" Growled Khrushchev: "I don't like anything, I don't like anything," but added grudgingly, "The workmanship is good." When Sukarno, nettled, tried to explain the intricate handwork involved, Khrushchev put him straight on the new industrialism: "They cost too much, not only in price but in human life. If we go on like this, there will be no progress. Machines, machines are what you need!" But he posed for photographers when Sukarno wrapped a sarong around...
Direct Action. The insurgents looked like an armed mob, but they had a leadership of sorts (see box). Handsome Pierre Lagaillarde shouted orders to his student followers and strode about, impressive in his paratrooper uniform of camouflage cloth, looking-with his neatly trimmed beard and mustache-like a well-barbered Fidel Castro. Burly, olive-skinned Jo Ortiz led the slum contingents instead of setting up drinks in his Forum bar. Pious Robert Martel had brought in the farmers who belonged to his "Movement...