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...Chez Janine, the pilgrim can find De Gaulle postcards embossed in 24-karat gold, pens and pencils, key rings, ashtrays and African stamps bearing the general's likeness. At the curio shop of the father of René Piot, the last villager to talk to the general, are De Gaulle chinaware and letter openers, De Gaulle inside a crystal ball surrounded by floating snow, De Gaulle busts, statuettes, books, records, cassettes, calendars, and crosses of Lorraine of various types. In one respect, however, the general's prophecy has proved wrong. There are absolutely no mementos in nougatine...
...GEORGE JACKSON had not been charged with murder I would not have had the opportunity to read his letters. Not that his letters are of interest as a curio, a souvenir of the shooting; none of their importance derives from the shooting or the guard's death or his trial. But we would have never known of George Jackson if he had not been unjustly accused, if he had not become a cause , if his life as an inmate had not by a grotesque nexus of circumstances put him in touch with well connected white lawyers and prominent movement figures...
...movie is "conceived of as a political film with an even wider canvas than "Z'," Ritchie said. He went on to say that "the film is not intended as a memorial or curio but as a story with great significance...
...German sex scene is changing so swiftly that it fairly cries out for a journal of its own. Now it has not one but two. From the basement of a St. Pauli curio shop has emerged the St. Pauli Nachrichten, a 15? tabloid whose circulation has swelled almost as remarkably as the Sexwelle itself. First published in early 1968 by burly Hamburger Helmut Rosenberg, 33, owner of the curio shop, and by a former Der Spiegel photographer named Günter Zint, the rag has grown from a four-page novelty with a press...
About an hour after we left the curio shop the car began to get hot and sputter. The girl repeated her dislike for it. It finally died in the middle of the desert. The upper radioator hose had a leak and the car wanted water. I flagged down a diesel driver who took me about fifteen miles to the next gas station. I bought some electrician's tape and a waterbag which I filled. After waiting quite a while. I got a ride back to the car, fixed the hose, and refilled the radiator. The car started again...