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...friend (who paid) to Venice, and stayed on there at the ex pense ' of one and another acquaintance for five years. When money was low, he slept in open boats and fought off the big wharf rats. When it was high, he spent it crazily, keeping his own gondola and dyeing his hair red. By fits and starts, he completed another novel, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. Without cease he wrote venomous letters to all his old ac quaintances demanding support. To one, in 1913, he wrote pathetically in a sudden break of tone...
...Countess Tolstoy heard her play in Moscow and invited her to her estate for the Christmas season. The count sent two sleighs to the railway station, one for Landowska, the other for the harpsichord which has followed her everywhere, sometimes on gondola and camelback. She returned again for the Christmas of 1909: "My music was a revelation to Tolstoy. I played for him; he talked...
...flat screen. What made audiences sit happily through two hours of the first public sampling of Cinerama was the "three dimensional" sensation to eyes & ears (TIME, July 2, 1951). The illusion jammed the spectators into the front car of a whipping roller coaster, then into a gliding Venetian gondola, then in the nose of a converted bomber as it soared across plains and mountains...
...Albino ("The Oyster") Rossi and Marcello ("The Slipper") Bon, Italy's famed (for 400 years) gondola race; in Venice. , Winners for the sixth straight time, Rossi and Bon received an all-too-familiar prize: a suckling pig, plus 300,000 lira...
...hundreds of thousands of U.S. tourists who are swarming across Europe this summer, a great number will visit Venice and ride in a gondola. A few of them will go to see Venice's 26th biennial exhibition, one of the biggest contemporary art shows ever staged. It has been characterized as a cornucopia of riches (more than 3,000 entries from 27 nations), and as a pain in the craning neck. The riches are there, and it takes craning to find them...