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...Picnic Fixings...
...remembering the screenwriter, Conley noted that “Taradash’s contributions to period pieces such as From Here to Eternity, Desiree, Picnic and Storm Center are crying out for further study...
...DIED. DANIEL TARADASH, 90, screenwriter who won an Oscar in 1953 for his adaptation of James Jones' controversial best-selling novel From Here to Eternity; in Los Angeles. President of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences from 1970 to 1973, Taradash's other writing credits include Desiree, Picnic, Hawaii and Golden...
...Wednesday and Friday (winter only) foie gras and poultry market here has dwindled over recent years to just a handful of farmers. Madame Gazel, seated at a rickety folding table, is a 32-year veteran of the market, her carefully plucked chickens stashed in blue plastic picnic coolers and her fresh eggs in a wicker basket. A few blocks away, the tree-lined boulevard called the Allées Jules Guesde hosts the big regional antiques and bric-a-brac market held on the first full weekend of every month. Dealers have to wait as long as two years...
Patricia Spier was heading home from a mountaintop picnic in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua when the ambush began. Out of nowhere, a hail of automatic-weapon fire perforated the two Toyota Land Cruisers in which the American schoolteacher and a group of her colleagues and husband were traveling in. "I was shot in the back and fell to the floor," Spier recalls. "The attackers kept shooting and shooting for about 45 minutes ... it felt like thousands of bullets and pieces of shrapnel [were] ripping through the vehicle... People were screaming." By the time the gunfire stopped, three people...