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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (he adopted Picasso,* his mother's maiden name, a not uncommon practice in Hispanic societies) was not only the youngest nicotine inhaler in Spain. He was to prove extraordinarily precocious in every other respect. By the age of 14, the pug-nosed, stocky, black-haired Pablo was a familiar figure in the Barrio Chino, the red-light district of fin de siècle Barcelona, the city to which the family had moved when he was five. Some of his earliest work was inspired by the putas and dancers of that wicked cosmopolitan seaport. Though...
...boys-on-the-block camaraderie, became a somber scene as players anxiously fretted over last night's mistakes. Injuries decimated the roster, most notably the loss of Potvin for 49 games. As many as 31 players shuttled through the lineup, the largest turnover since the Islanders' maiden season. For the first time in its history, the club was unable to improve on its previous season's record, finally finishing second in the division with 39 wins, 28 losses and 13 ties...
...Secretary of State received a rousing send-off for his maiden diplomatic mission when the Senate, after less than four hours of hearings, confirmed his appointment, 94 to 2. Even the two nays (by Republican Conservatives Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire) were cast not in disapproval of Muskie but as protests against Carter's foreign policy. One Senator followed another in praising Muskie and he, in turn, brought them to their feet with an emotional farewell to the chamber in which he had served for the past 22 years. Said Muskie: "I look...
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the far away land of Arabia, there lived a princess fair. She fell in love with a commoner, but her family forbade their marriage. Then her angry grandfather, the king's brother, accused her of meeting him in a sinful tryst. The maiden of 19 years was shot to death at her grandfather's orders, and the commoner she loved was decapitated in a public square...
...says, "I wouldn't stop working for anything! But I'm very stubborn about parts. I am not going to sink into playing little old grandmothers, maiden aunts or cameos. If the audience sneezes or blinks in a cameo, you're gone." Davis underlines her words, punctuating with exclamation points and various marks that are not found in the grammar books. If she says no, she follows it with two or three others. In real life, as in the movies, she is almost never without a cigarette, which she uses like a baton to orchestrate her words...