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...told him a story," Singer continued. "I once went into a tailor's in Warsaw and asked for a cost with crooked pocket. He told me I didn't need to ask, I could ask for straight pockets and they should still be crooked...
...rank today. "Before the war," he laments, "I could have a perfectly satisfying evening out on a mere 10-yen note. Now you might spend 10,000 yen and the geisha will still say no." Yokoi is increasingly concerned about how he will earn those yen. "If I turn tailor again, as I was before the war, I would only go broke; I would be disqualified from the very first step, bargaining the price of a suit length...
When he walks, he gallops. When he eats, he gobbles down two and three full-course meals at a sitting. He wears suits made for him by a tailor in Zagreb, Yugoslavia; all dressed up, he is the picture of a Russian Deputy Minister of Power and Electricity. Bachelor Bobby does not have time for dating. He once said that when God gets ready, he will drop a girl in his lap. Most often, he rises late in a day that almost invariably ends with chess, chess, chess until dawn. Then he dozes off to the soothing swoosh...
Died. Saul Alinsky, 63, radical activist and organizer who for more than three decades taught the poor and oppressed how to fight for change; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif. The Chicago-born son of a Russian tailor, Alinsky first tasted combat when he sided with dissident miners against John L. Lewis during the 1930s. Inspired by the era's mass organizing methods, Alinsky set up a training school for organizers, the Industrial Areas Foundation. With pickets, boycotts and stockholder revolts, he worked in behalf of impoverished Irish Americans in Chicago, unemployed blacks in Rochester, Chicanos in California...
Trintignant's breakthrough came in 1966 with A Man and a Woman. The low-key love story was tailor-made to his personality by his friend, Director Claude Lelouch, and filmed without a script in four weeks. Offers began pouring in, but Trintignant had had enough of romantic parts. "Love scenes embarrass me," he says. "I'm not an exhibitionist." He now prefers political films that share his left-wing viewpoint (the most recent: The Assassination, based on the Ben Barka affair in France) and bad-guy roles "to counteract my own good nature." Costa-Gavras calls...