Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumania seemed outwardly calm, but both government and people grew gnawingly uneasy over Russian intentions. On Monday, a gleaming black Jaguar Mark X pulled up to the broad steps of Bucharest's imposing Central Committee building. A brisk little man in a dark suit climbed alone into the back seat. It was Ceausescu, off to the industrial center of Brasov to address factory workers. He was on the move throughout the country each day last week in a skillful and seemingly remarkably successful campaign to rally his people behind him in preparation for a possible clash with the Soviets...
...Painter wrote a book about his plight (Mark, I Love You). There was little else he could do. Then, two months ago, Mark's grandparents agreed to allow the boy a visit with his father, who is now living near Santa Cruz, Calif. Once Mark arrived, Painter filed suit in California to keep him. Mark had told him, "I've made up my mind, Hal. I want to stay in California. I've always been with you anyway...
Upset though they were, the Bannisters finally agreed not to fight the suit if a minister they sent as an emissary could interview the boy to determine if he were happy with his dad. The minister was satisfied, and last week a California judge ruled that Mark, now ten, can stay home...
...midst of the shoptalk in Atlanta last week, Townsend recalled: "My father taught me when you are down and out to shine your shoes and press your old suit, and put on your best appearance." Lynn Townsend had his shoes shined and his suit pressed, and his company, now far from being down and out, made a very impressive appearance...
...first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable power. The shiny eyes dance behind rimless glasses, the arguments with God become a grudge fight, consciousness and the dream state mix until the tragedy plays itself out upon...