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...tendrilous international style of art nouveau swept over Europe, dominating the design of everything from the Paris Metro stations to ordinary knives and forks. The inevitable reaction against it was particularly violent, and the whole movement was dismissed as a rather ludicrous, if temporary, aberration. Artists like Alphonse Mucha, if remembered at all, seemed as dated as gaslight and their work as decadent as Oscar Wilde's sun flower. But lately art nouveau has been getting a new look. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art had a big show of it three years ago, and in London last...
Hundreds of U.S. and European employees of the oil companies were herded protectively into company compounds, but it was hard to say what they were being protected from. "Mucha música pero poca ópera," said a grizzled engineer, quoting the old Nicaraguan proverb: Lots of noise but little action. Although most of the $125 million worth of oil installations had been prudently shut down several days before the invasion, one U.S. contracting company, disregarding the war, kept right at work on a road and pipeline linking the oilfields with the seacoast. Caltex announced that, with government permission...
Ingram's salesmen sold caps with more than 25,000 different inscriptions; production rose from 240,000 caps in 1932 to more than 42 million in 1955. Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...
...feel so mucha better now," said Tony. "We kill to savea the pig but we kill for this, too." His hand pointed to streets where houses lay tumbled by mines and dynamite, where wooden window shutters rattled against shaky walls. A bitter wind, climbing wildly up the slopes to the rock on which the village stood, set a church bell tolling fitfully. Shawled women poked in the rubble for their pots & pans...
...scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...