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...facto, sovereign, unified power. Within the French Empire there now exist two armies responsible to two different commanders who are not responsible to one war minister. In terms of the hopes of a few days ago, this is a turning back of the French political clock. And hollow sound the recent words of De Gaulle and Giraud: 'Frenchmen, the unity you have been waiting for has been achieved...
...Some of my songs," says Lara, "are the fruit of inspiration, some of hunger." Only a few of the 800 are top-notch Lara. But these combine a distinctive Latin melodic gift with true poetic quality. With a kind of soft, confessional stridency, little hollow-eyed Lara whispers his songs to the women of Mexico. He pictures them in brothels, on their knees beside confessionals, in the arms of lovers, in frustrated spinsterdom. He is by turns caressing and despondent, lunar and neurotic...
...said in a hollow voice. "I see you sitting alone at a table at the Walnut Cafe. You are bald but except for that you haven't changed much." (My hair is getting thin, but I try to ignore it. Shad is so blunt.) "Strapped to the top of your bald head, you have a small microwave radio receiving and transmitting set. You radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with...
...have other properties as well. Among the most important: the capacity to take the heavy punishment of deep drawing (i.e., being punched into hollow shape) without wrinkling, cracking, or breaking apart...
...world's fastest distance runner: long-legged, hollow-cheeked, 24-year-old Gunder Hägg (rhymes with egg) of Gavle, Sweden...