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...first year at Sadiki, he and his lifelong friend Mohammed ben Hamouda had joined an anti-French demonstration through the streets of Tunis. Recalls Hamouda, now a pharmacist in Tunis: "We were finally rounded up, given a good spanking, and sent home. But this made a profound impression on Slim. From that time on, his life was politics...
Hypnotic Gas. A quiet, secretive, self-educated, 39-year-old intellectual who is calm and courteous on the set and an utter mystery to his friends, Resnais was born in Vannes, the son of a Breton pharmacist. He made his first motion picture, called Adventures of Fantomas, when he was 13, using 8-mm. film and proceeding on the lovely green theory that if he concentrated on closeups his child actors would look adult...
...Campo Grande on what was then the woolly fringe of Brazil's wild western frontier. His home was a rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with a mania for women, displaying constant aggressiveness toward his son and wife." Pursued by bill collectors, the family flitted from town to town, until...
...very point. To another visitor, De Gaulle made clear his willingness to build up the stature of Ferhat Abbas in the F.L.N. as a counterpoise to the extremists. But his personal estimate of Abbas, a onetime druggist from the arid plateau country south of Bougie, is not high. "The pharmacist of Setif," he remarked, "would have made a barely passable Radical deputy-sort of an Algerian Queuille."* Executed Settlement. De Gaulle is moving cautiously toward an eventual face-to-face meeting with Ferhat Abbas. De Gaulle no longer demands a cease-fire before opening the talks, but no political discussion...
Yale & Starvation. Rothko's father was a Russian Jewish pharmacist who took his family to the U.S. in 1913. Rothko grew up in Portland, Ore., with nary a thought of becoming an artist: he wanted to be a labor leader. He attended Yale, dropped out to ''wander around, bum about, starve a bit." It was not until 1925, when he was 22, that he settled down in Manhattan to attend Max Weber's art classes at the Art Students League. He did not stay long. As a painter, Mark Rothko is almost wholly self-taught...