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...permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy." Djilas' personal impressions of Stalin confirm the cruel portrait drawn previously by others. No man was obscure enough to escape Stalin's barbs; once, recalls Djilas, it was a waiter whom Stalin forced to share a toast at a diplomatic reception as a "grotesque expression of Stalin's regard for the common people." Most surprising to Djilas were the Soviet rulers' big appetites, appeased at drunken, all-night banquets. Before one such repast, at Stalin's villa...
...city streets, motor scooters, yesterday's symbol of prosperity, have almost vanished, replaced by masses of automobiles-although to own a car, many Italians must still make sacrifices. Says one Milanese waiter, explaining why he is single: "O macchina, o moglie" (Either a car or a wife...
...Miney, Mo. By 1938, Williams had managed to finish his schooling, at St. Louis' Washington University and at the University of Iowa, and he applied for a job with the WPA writers' project. He was rejected for lack of "social content," and settled for work as a waiter in a 25?-a-meal restaurant in New Orleans. There he dived into a world of jazz, bars, pimps and sexual outcasts that populate his first short-story collection, called One Arm. He also officially adopted his nickname of Tennessee ("Tom Williams was rather dull...
...subscribers and closed the play. In the next four years, Williams collected the job labels that are pasted on the luggage of itinerant U.S. writers. He worked as a restaurant cashier, usher in Manhattan's Strand Theater, Teletype operator, apartment-house elevator operator, and as a poetry-reciting waiter in Greenwich Village's Beggar Bar-where he wore a black eye patch with a libidinous white eye painted on it; he had undergone the first of four eye operations. Moving on to Hollywood, he wrote unused film scripts for MGM, until he was fired. One of the scripts...
...Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which is part of God, demands...