Word: tangier
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...traveled through seven countries and crossed the U.S. half a dozen times. It was all too incredibly exciting. She sang and danced the night through with genuine gypsies in genuine caves in Granada, sipped chicory coffee at dawn with stevedores on the New Orleans docks, rolled hashish in a Tangier tavern. "I taste of everything the world has to offer," she says. Her tastes run from opera and religious music to modern art, though she takes time out from Baudelaire (which she reads in French) to catch up on Peanuts (which she reads in English...
...shares through the New York Stock Exchange, they engaged seven boiler rooms to float the stock on the over-the-counter market, got touters to push the stock with false claims. To keep the stock up and lure more gullible investors, United Dye engaged a shady bank in Tangier to buy the old shares listed on the Big Board, which were so thinly held that a few purchases were enough to maintain the price. After the Guterma-Dardi group unloaded its stock at a total profit of some $5,000,000, United Dye crashed from $15 to less than...
...having, once, smoked a small quantity of marijuana.) The Burroughs gambit was, until recently, almost unanswerable, because it was almost impossible to track this author down, physically or in print. He was the greyest of grey eminences, a wraith who flickered into occasional visibility in Mexico, Paris or Tangier. The few shreds of information about him have been those of the YAD catechism: he was the legendary "Bull Lee" of On the Road; he spent 15 years on junk; he wrote an unprintable book called Naked Lunch, which no one had read but which everyone said hit the veins like...
...enjoying it less, while the most renowned motion pictures of the present are being made by Europeans and Asians. Hence there is a new phenomenon-the movie idol who is adored throughout the U.S. in much the same way that Clark Gable was once admired from Saipan to Tangier. The greatest of these is Italy's Marcello Mastroianni...
...pick up out in Australia? Ten or twelve? Oh, fine, 13. How many we got in Africa? Thirty in Africa. We got three new TV stations in Kenya, Uganda and Trinidad. I got one started in Aden, and I just got a license for a station blanketing Gibraltar and Tangier. Anyway. I'm expanding all I can as fast...