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...Jebsen, finding cheap places was easy, but not finding cheap and "half-way decent" places. Sometimes, he did make a mistake and "stay in dives." One particularly memorable "incredibly dark" dive was located in Barcelona, complete with a decrepit sink and "all sorts of bugs." recalled Jebsen...
...shirts and ties bought secondhand at the Salvation Army. His $260-a- month apartment in Manhattan's run-down East Village is furnished in Early Struggling Artist: an assortment of old tables and chairs, aging appliances and, for some reason having to do with a previous renovation, a kitchen sink in the living room. The walk-up tenement has no working front bell. To enter, a visitor must call up from the sidewalk and wait for the poet to throw down a key rolled up in a sock...
...penny thrown in a fountain will make a soft plink, then sink to the bottom and lie there helping to clog the drains, nothing more...
...while the film is not without humor--such as the scene where Adela's servant is brewing tea in a porcelain toilet bowl, for example--the film does sink occasionally into pomposity. Too many intense closeups or large-scale shots of clamoring, turbaning masses, combined with a bombastic, schmaltzy musical score, sometimes prove overwhelming. Still, with its minor problems, it is a daring and breathtaking film...
...fronts. He proved an able lobbyist in Washington, charming a reluctant Congress into approving some $200 million in economic and military aid. He shuffled the command of El Salvador's security forces, long considered the breeding ground for the death squads, and watched the number of killings sink from 40 a month to less than a dozen. He assured businessmen, deeply suspicious of his left-leaning economic and social policies, that he would listen to them...