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...city. At 10 a.m. when I arrived at the dilapidated Tourist Office, I found the door open but no one inside. I was tired and sat down to read a book I had with me. About half an hour later, a man in a coat and tie arrived, smiled at me politely and said hello. I responded likewise and asked if he had a map of the city. He responded, "No speak English, sorry." I repeated the question in French, which he understood. He seemed surprised at my question and answered, in French, that I could find such things...
When the play opens, Said (Robert Jackson), the poorest of the poor, is about to marry Leila (Janet League), the ugliest of the ugly. He steals a coat and lands in jail. She steals in order to be with him, and after that they sink from degradation to degradation. The war quickly takes center stage, with the French soldiers presented as dandified homosexuals and the rebels as little better. The language of the play is unrelentingly anal. As no great surprise, Genet finally advocates acts of evil as the only liberating force either against the old order...
...Nixon was one of the pluses in her husband's campaign for the presidency. With the cloth coat and shirtwaist dresses, she added a humanizing grace to Nixon's race against John F. Kennedy. But in the eight years that separated the two Nixon presidential campaigns, Pat Nixon changed. The bitter defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial race and the long road back left their marks. During the 1968 campaign, she was little more than a speaker's platform mannequin, hair carefully coiffed, legs properly crossed at the ankles, the smiles and pattering applause from her gloved...
...Stalin's mortal enemy, Leon Trotsky, in The Assassination of Trotsky, being filmed in Rome by U.S. Director Joseph Losey. Elizabeth Taylor anxiously monitored the scene in which the murderer, played by French Actor Alain Delon, sneaks up behind Trotsky with an Alpine ice ax hidden under his coat. Delon claimed to be so wrapped up in his role that he was afraid he might actually kill Burton. "There are plenty of French actors in the world, but if you kill me you kill one-sixth of all Welsh actors," said Richard, forgetting for a moment that nearly every...
...buttons concealing snap closings. It retails for $33 (with matching trousers, it is called the jen-min chuang, or people's suit). The Dragon Ladies also offer other styles right out of Terry and the Pirates-a bright red medallion-print pantsuit at $70 and a long coat with slits up both sides, called...