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Suhrawardy puts in twelve-hours-plus work a day, often holds court sprawling on side-by-side twin beds amid a litter of state papers and fly swatters, or riffles through his "Immediate Action" files with a radio or tape recorder blaring. Fun-loving Suhrawardy manages to give a party a week, rarely refuses a social invitation...
...lies in the basin of the fountain, plywood pipe-players are scattered about the lawn. Inside, the three main rooms are jammed. Canvases crowd the walls, spill out of crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme or be incorporated into a new sculpture - a hollow elephant's foot filled with pebbles, a bird cage containing two parakeets, an African drum, faded flowers, a life-sized wooden crocodile, a pile...
Finally at 1:20 a.m., Adlai conceded and the remaining handful of people tried to be enthusiastic, with no noticeable success. It was all over, for four more years. Hotel workers began to clean up the vast litter of beer cans and banners which had accumulated on the floor...
...first of these scenes are quite funny--especially in Lisbon just before the earthquake where junkmen, winesellers, and Arab conjurers litter the stage. A bear frolics--chased by his bearman--and the wild infant Casmira screams, "The earth will quake and the ground will shake," to which the Very, Very Old Inquisitor grunts toward the Very Old Inquisitor, "The danger has passed." Just then the stage begins to rumble. As the play wears on, however, these scenes become repetitions and progressively less funny. Toward the end, Candide wearily remarks, "You cannot live by bed alone...
...magazine publishing is Playboy, an oversexed young version of the 23-year-old Esquire. Last week, not yet three years old but selling 688,000 copies, the slick and sassy 50? monthly threatened to outstrip Esquire (circ. 778,000) in a circulation fight. Playboy has also spawned a litter of its own imitators, e.g., Playgirl (which it is suing for too close an imitation), Nugget, Rogue, U.S. Male...