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...lips," said Wilkie Edwards, a bus driver in the fishing town of Grenville on Grenada's east coast. The zesty beat of steel-band calypso music from radios and portable tape decks followed the U.S. military patrols as smiling Grenadians surged about the Americans. They offered the soldiers fruit and vegetables and serenaded them with guitars. Women rushed to embrace the young paratroopers. "I feel so settled; I feel so free," declared Linda Charles, a cashier in a reopened gas station in St. George's. With a grin, David Rodd, a cement-plant worker, proclaimed: "This...
Dickering with his bottles, violins, fruit dishes, newspapers, pipes, siphons and fruit, Gris-so the conventional account runs-wanted to construct an ideal world, a nirvana of the inanimate, whose planes and contours fitted together in their complex reversals and transparencies like a perfectly thought-out puzzle: metaspace, as it were, a place beyond touch, in which only the eye can travel. There are few and sometimes no objective counterparts to the splits and mirrorings Gris imposed on his small theater of objects, but to examine the great, intricate still lifes of 1915-16 is to see fantasy and analysis...
Mangers keep food at the Edible Complex simple-just bagels, poptarts and muffins from Warburtons. Facilities consist of a toaster oven and a refrigerator to store fresh fruit, yogurt and sodas...
When Robin Phillips was 15 and a student at Britain's Bristol Old Vic, his impoverished rural parents provided him ? 1 a week for pocket money, obtained "by selling things from the house, including their wedding presents." The sacrifice bore fruit. At 20, Phillips was acting with Laurence Olivier; by the time he was 30, he was an established director in London's West End (Tiny Alice), on Broadway (Abelard and Heloise) and, by preference, in Britain's regional repertory theaters. His success was certified in 1973 when, at age 31, he won one of the most...
...typical scramble, housewives confront a butcher who tells them that the meat locker is empty and he has "no idea" when more supplies will arrive. Milk and fish are scarce, fresh eggs are the rarest of treats, and produce counters display only limp, miserable specimens of vegetables and fruit...