Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorable non sequitur: "When I go there, they ruin me." She eats reducing tablets to help keep her measurements from becoming 38-38-38. She loves spaghetti with meat and tomato sauce, hot peppers, and grapes. "It still seems an occasion to eat meat," she says, and her childhood hunger now turns up in her terms of endearment. She calls Carlo Ponti her "Melanzana Parmigiana," her little eggplant...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
Facing up to the island's growing hunger, he set harsh new rationing regulations. In Havana, almost everything is to be rationed. Rice is restricted to 6 lbs. per person per month; beans, 1½ lbs.; soap, one cake ("I believe it will suffice if used economically," said Castro); eggs, five. Meat is restricted to ¾ lb. per week (enough for three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with...
...disturbances, but claimed he was miles away at the time, painting government-commissioned murals at Chapultepec Castle. The authorities threw him into Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison anyway, and held him without trial. Whiling away the weeks, he painted scenery for prison theatricals, staged a brief hunger strike, and produced about 20 tiny paintings. He even managed to turn out murals on sections of plywood designed to be hinged together later...
...Heck, who burst into tears when he received a personal letter from "our President." Barred by the constitution from retaking the presidency, Quadros may go along with supporters who would like to see him Prime Minister, a post that can be shaped by a strong man to satisfy his hunger for executive power. There are disillusioned Brazilians aplenty who regard Quadros as unstable and a potential dictator. But among the politicians who sense the Brazilian people's growing anger over their country's slothful government, there is a feeling that Quadros is a political messiah. From all over Brazil last...