Word: tangier
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THIS KIND OF Lotus-eaters imagery deludes many Westerners into viewing the East as lush, exotic, and unique. On the ferry from Algeciras to Tangier it's easy to become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's tempting to affect an eighteenth-century gentleman merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature...
...book's central character, a figure named Kate McCloud. Destined to appear as the first chapter in Capote's novel, Monsters follows Jones through scatological reminiscences of his life as a male prostitute in Manhattan and his years as an unsuccessful novelist living in Tangier, Paris and Venice. "I began making notes for this book eleven years ago, and I started writing three years ago," says Capote, disclosing that he has put copies of his still unfinished 800-page manuscript into two separate bank vaults. His Parthian shot: "This is my swan song. If I do anything else...
...World of Reason, just off the presses and a play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, opening on Broadway in August, Williams had an excuse for his revels. Last week he got together with the cast at the first rehearsal. Written two years ago while Williams was in Tangier, Battery Sign casts Anthony Quinn as a Mexican street musician, Katy Jurado as his wife and Claire Bloom as his downtown diversion. "I have never had a part before that was so me," proclaimed Quinn, who will be making his first Broadway appearance in 14 years. Like Williams, Quinn...
...Joel claims he is alone. Norah sends Joel to a woman psychiatrist (Lovelady Powell), but she isn't much help, being apparently as puzzled about him as the rest of us. "I never understood why you went to live in the East Village when you came back from Tangier," she says, a remark which slightly advances the plot, but not the analysis...
...court to determine whether his selection-out was based on the fact that he had received poor performance ratings or that the State Department had somehow failed to consider his highly favorable ratings. In fact, it was the latter. Thomas had carved a distinguished career in posts such as Tangier, Port-au-Prince and Mexico City, where he became a specialist in Mexican radical politics. Indeed, he had high marks from his superiors and colleagues alike; the explicit blemish on his record was an observation by a Mexico City superior that Thomas did not exercise proper "control" over his secretary...