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...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...
Edith Piaf is not, strictly speaking, a champagne vendor. But whenever and wherever she sings, the corks start popping faster than ever. For, like no other, La Piaf's peculiarly vibrant voice is the voice of Paris-a voice that seems to summon misty memories of Montmartre for those who have been there, and thirsty fantasies for those who have...
Giuliano's mother, Maria, is a quarrelsome old woman who has long been in jail for helping him. "Giuliano," said a Palermo street vendor, "is trying to survive only so that he will not give his mother pain and perhaps cause her death by news of his death...
Blocks of bright new stores have appeared amid the ruins of West German cities; rings of huge sausages festoon the show windows of butcher shops. Even the sidewalk vendor of frankfurters has reappeared in Frankfurt. West German industrial production stands at 87% of the 1936 level, steel output has soared to nine million tons a year. But the anniversary triumph requires a damper of caution. West Germany is beset by some alarming economic difficulties...
...there came a time when Rivera pooh-poohed Picasso: mere cubism was not enough. Diego's rebellion began one fine morning in 1918, he recalls: "I was just coming out of a cubist show at the Rosenberg gallery when a fruit vendor passed in front of me in the sunshine, pushing a little wagon full of peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel, not just intellectual constructions." Rivera was coming back to the maxims...