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...fast checking service, easy exchange of books bought at other stores, handsome wrapping and a record department. Brentano's has added ancient and modern art in original and reproduction, adult games and library furniture. Rizzoli has the elegance of an 18th century library, plans to offer browsers authentic espresso made with water imported from Italy. "Our customers are doing more than exchanging money for a book," boasts Scribner's Vice President Igor Kropotkin. "They are having a significant experience." Only twelve doors from discounting Korvette, Scribner boosted its sales 20% last year, matched Korvette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Hooked on Books | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

Imperfections & Cares. With 40 films and a brilliant career on the Paris stage already behind her, Moreau has been La Moreau to the French for years. But up until very recently, her American audience ran to cinemaphiles and espresso drinkers-the crowd that goes to Yugoslav film festivals, the people who liked 8½. Her great films-The Lovers, La Notte, Jules and Jim-played mostly in art houses, and some of her films found no U.S. distributor at all. Now, in a turn of taste that is as encouraging as it is surprising, Moreau is everywhere: opposite Burt Lancaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Making the Most of Love | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...estate. Dividends help pay for Vatican expenses and charities such as assisting 1,500,000 children and providing some measure of food and clothing to 7,000,000 needy Italians. Unlike ordinary stockholders, the Vatican pays no taxes on this income, which led the leftist Rome weekly L'Espresso last week to call it "the biggest tax evader in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Vatican's Wealth | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...permitted extensive tours outside the Communist bloc. Despite its considerable success in other European countries, the fundamental trouble, for U.S. theatergoers, is that Poland is just too too off-Broadway. At any rate, the program is saturated with all the fashionably despairing notions that stir tempests in the espresso cups of Greenwich Village coffeehouses. The angst comes in all flavors and includes Everyman's thwarted desire to communicate with Everyman, the torment of the creative artist, the solitary anguish of existence, and the torturing sense of living in the shadow of the Apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pantomime: Angst Merchants in BVDs | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...hope those urban planners make allowance for such little things as sidewalk cafes and coffeehouses where pedestrians can relax over a 25? cup of espresso for an hour or two, absorbing all this renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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