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...their cutaways in Savile Row ($140), dress their wives in Hartnell gowns ($550 each), bring their daughters out in sumptuous balls at the Dorchester during the London season ($3,000). Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties in full fig. How is it done on less than $16,800 a year...
...unplanned-for industrial city has mushroomed just beyond the capital's fig-shaped circumferential boulevard, and some of the well-chaperoned girls who used to promenade under the lights in the palace square now work in bright new textile mills. A $20 million, German-financed steel-tube plant is under construction, and five cement companies are moving in. Though smiling at comparisons with lordly Sao Paulo, Mineiros agree that their state's natural wealth (manganese, thorium, bauxite, eleven billion tons of iron) points logically to the development of heavy industry. For his part, Juscelino just wants...
...snake skin which you may believe The serpent cast that tempted Eve. A fig-leaf apron, 'tis the same ' Which Adam wore to hide his shame . . . It is my wish, it is my glory to furnish your knick knackatory...
under the hazels, under the fig tree, on the parapet of the bridge, on those long summer evenings . . . Those were the evenings when a light-a bonfire on the distant hills-made me scream and roll on the ground, because I was poor, because I was a boy, because I was nothing." In the end, the hero hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes...
...jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing the show: "Ghika has extended the boundaries of cubism...