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...artist spent several months in Corsica, but seemed to have found no more sunlight than he used to filter on to his dark canvases at home. Another, surrounded by the lush scenery of CuraÇcao, painted the same intricate abstractions that she did before she went away. A third went to Spain, and seemed to have seen the same landscapes he had known between The Hague and the Hook of Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dutchmen Abroad | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...hear that as a transit passenger on [a] Pan American flight ... I was searched in Ciudad Trujillo airport and my copy of TIME, July 30, taken away from me forcibly. I insisted on its return, calling the U.S. Embassy for help, and thus missed my plane to Curaçao. After the ruckus was over, the magazine was returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Mariel, a storm struck the Euzkera. She sank so swiftly that only twelve men & women had time to climb into the one lifeboat that got away. Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua. She took the survivors aboard, headed for Cura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Casuals of the Sea | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Soon everybody was drinking the "intimatist cocktail"-a gin base with an equal dash of curaçao and of an apéritif. Then Sébille rose and spoke. He spoke of his philosophy and the manner in which life should be lived and rosebuds gathered. The intimatists wrapped themselves in bed sheets to resemble Roman togas. From then until well past dawn, intimatism became general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Bearish | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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