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...Alcoholic Beverages Commission, according to Executive Director George Nelson, received a complaint about the practice earlier in the week. Nelson refused to disclose the origin of the complaint...
...Sofia has refrained from joining in the recent chorus of attacks by Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia against Rumania's independent foreign policy. Even though Bulgaria and Turkey are members of rival military alignments, they are cooperating on several important issues. Sofia is allowing Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin to emigrate to Turkey, and the two countries have just opened a rail line that directly links them without going through Greece. In turn, Greece is a frequent target of Bulgarian propaganda, but Sofia earlier this year signed a pact for joint economic and scientific cooperation with Athens. Sofia...
Proclaimed Salvatore Micale, the mayor of Catania, Sicily: "The civic administration has decided to honor a famous personage, a son of our city, who not only never wished to Americanize his surname-clearly of Sicilian origin-but also one who on various occasions has displayed his regret that he has never been accorded a public homage in Italy." But what kind of homage for Hoboken-born Frank Sinatra (whose father was born in Catania)? A bust seemed to be the answer, until somebody remembered a national law that forbids statues of liv-ing persons. Catania will probably say it with...
What the reader learns is this: six boys are born in the same summer in a village in the American Southwest. One dies young; five live to manhood. They separate, though bound together by their origin and by a mistress shared serially. No one is named. Each is referred to by his profession: the actor, the poet, the musician, the painter. That is four; the last, the curator of these memories, is a teacher of English...
...particles that he must have felt when painting his last, unfinished canvas, Victory Boogie-Woogie (1943-44). The ethical and mystical concerns that underlie Mondrian's abstracts had become apparent earlier still in such paintings as Passion Flower (1901). This Art Nouveau-flavored image had a curiously mundane origin: Mondrian suspected that his model had VD, and painted her face contorted into a St. Teresa-like trance of meditation and repentance...