Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Live in France. Like Figaro, all France displays a curious ambivalence-a mixture of apparent political apathy and of passionate disgust for present parliamentary procedures. Ostensibly, the French dilemma hinges on Algeria: it was the suspicion that he was moving toward negotiations with the rebels that toppled Felix Gaillard after 5½ months in office. But the Algerian problem could long ago have been resolved were it not for the unreconstructed imperialist who skulks within the breast of so many Frenchmen. Cynical about government, about grandeur and glory, Frenchmen nonetheless are vulnerable to exhortations that France must rank high among...
Manhattan's love affair with the Moiseyev-running concurrently with Moscow's crush on U.S. Pianist Van Cliburn (TIME April 21-28)-went on offstage too. Every time the dancers left their Times Square hotel (where they insisted on making their own beds), they were followed by curious throngs, snapped by photographers, interviewed by newsmen. The girls went on Fifth Avenue shopping sprees, passed opinions about the chemise ("all right for the not too fat"), Americans ("very friendly"), Manhattan ("too noisy"), the Broadway musical West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed...
...Closeup. As her subjects gathered, tourists, reporters and photographers streamed into the square too. In spite of their loyalty to their queen, the gypsies could not resist doing a little business. To keep the curious even more so, they fanned romantic rumors about the queen's hidden $32,000 treasure. They also made newsmen pay for everything they got. Prices ranged from 5,000 lire ($8) for a photograph of a gypsy weeping to 50,000 lire for a closeup of the queen herself. "For only 5,000 lire more," a gold-toothed, top-hatted elder told an Italian...
Descendants of the curious first Mr. Halloran, builder of this desirable piece of real estate, now inhabited his world, avoiding as much as possible the outside world of other mortals. Then one day one of their number perceived, in an apparition of the first Mr. Halloran, that the end of the outside world was not far off. Humanity, as an experiment, had failed, and the gods who created it had decided that all on earth save the twelve denizens of the Halloran mansion should perish in a general cataclysm...
...awaits graduation, Mr. Eyre paddles about the Square with a curious stagger, poking in and out of book shops and record stores, where he is known for his excellent taste and frequent purchases ("I wave a flag for Wagner and Richard Strauss."). During working hours, he has handy a large green bottle of ginger ale, which Frankie, a Boston cab driver who is often at his side, manages somehow to keep cold. Mr. Eyre seldom retires until past dawn and normally is not seen about until well past time for luncheon...