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...direction which is being supplied here is coming from the government. The sousprefeture complex, with offices and a meeting hall, the gendarmerie: the post office; a propaganda showroom; and some offices in the center of town: these are what the leadership has to work with. It isn't much, and where many people cannot read and no one has a choice of how to vote, it tends to fade out of most people's sight...
...those slow afternoons in a Beverly Hills auto showroom, and Burt Sugarman, 28, the smoothly pompadoured proprietor, noodled at his desk. In the window reclined a long, low, old-fashioned jobbie with running boards, bicycle fenders and blindingly chromed supercharger exhausts curling out of the hood. Suddenly, an ill-clad geek with long hair popped into the shop. Sonny Buono, of Sonny and Cher, pointed at the glittery relic and asked: "What's that?" "Excalibur," replied Sugarman. "I'll take it," chirped Sonny...
Spinning the Basket. The way a typical consorcio works: 80 or so would-be buyers get together, pool enough money each month to buy two cars. The group gathers at an auto showroom, where some lucky member gets one of the cars by the spin of a bingo-style basket. For him, the effect is much the same as if he had made an installment plan purchase: he takes possession of the car right away, goes on making payments into the consorcio each month thereafter...
...second and most attenuated of the playlets takes place in the basement showroom of a bedding store, and proves only that Eros is the god of youth and the goad of middle...
...died of throat cancer last week at 79, had been opening doors in a funny way ever since he was a kid in Philadelphia. Then he was Isaiah Ed win Leopold, who used to upset his mil liner father by putting on ladies' hats and mincing around the showroom like a prospective customer. At 16, he split his middle name in two and became Ed Wynn, and soon he was "The Boy with the Funny Hats" - a turn in which he twisted a trick fedora into 28 shapes...