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...surge in exports to Asia is largely the work of Australia's imaginative, Canberra-backed industrial and commercial associations and an army of tropical-suited Australian salesmen, who tout their goods in every Asian bazaar...
...slightest misstep: a melody will slip into passages that suggest fado or flamenco or Orthodox church music, then emerge again for a major-key resolution. Ferré has written some lovely love songs, but most of his ideas are tough, and he does not mince words-as in Monsieur Tout-Blanc, his pre-Deputy attack on the Pope...
...Cincinnati, a race-track tout named Keith Harold Robinson was found not guilty of trespassing at River Downs track. Robinson, said the court, was not on the premises illegally; he had paid for a two-dollar ticket of admission. For the track, and for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, the verdict made a major problem out of a minor incident: Robinson filed a $100,000 suit for damages. While he was held for six days on the trespassing charge, he said, "his loyal and faithful dog," an 18-year-old mongrel named Skeeter, "was left unattended and, as a direct...
...love-hate relationship," he emphasizes that "there are aspects of the professional theater which appall me." Most simply, he decries the "big business of Broadway" which emphasizes a criterion of achievement "only incidently related to merit." And he finds the theater in "pretty dismal shape when we have to tout Albee as our leading playwright...
...this can be intolerable to the eccentric himself if he is a dedicated exhibitionist. Bernard Kops has been a poor Jewish evacuee from the blitzed East End of London, a waiter, an actor in terrible road companies, a book peddler, a songwriter, a bum in London and Paris and tout for a brothel in Tangier. He has told all in a sort of breathless antistyle that can be the most irritating of all styles. Every frightful thing that happened to him (and the rare pleasant event) is told in exactly the same tone of voice as if his book were...