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Fire. His wife arrived and peered down the hole in fright. He reassured her. But the police sent for a doctor and a priest. Oxygen was piped down the hole. Big floodlights were brought in; they threw a harsh, garish light over the scene and heated the air until the toiling cops were wet with sweat. At 8:30 there was a terrible interruption. A lighted cigarette was lowered down the well in a tin can; a few minutes after it reached the bottom there was an explosion-apparently caused by oxygen and seeping gasoline fumes. Fire filled the well...
...horse-dung, its characteristic noise motorcycles and its characteristic sight [black-market] money-changers." To view the beauties of this masterpiece among cities, visitors must still, like Poet Robert Browning, nose their way through smelly, dingy streets, searching for some church or belfry embedded and lost in a garish market place...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers had evidence that old man Picabia had a new, if rather trivial, trick. Abandoning his garish pictures of expensive French real estate, he was painting wobbly-ringed dots on thick monochrome backgrounds. With three to 15 dots to a canvas, the pictures had all the monotony and none of the scientific interest of a series of astronomical photographs...
People came out of the Chapel, across the Yard. Vag slipped down to one group, heading south to sing some more, and crossed back over Massachusetts Avenue with them. There were the stores again, still garish, but they looked foolish now, alone against the bigness of the night. The lights above the sidewalk were dim if you set them against the Dipper, high and very bright indeed...
...West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...