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...sculptures, Modigliani stole subway ties and building blocks. Once some workers came upon him carving one of their blocks in the dawn light, and summarily built it into the foundations while he wept and stormed. For his portraits he would charge ten francs a sitting, "and a little alcohol." His nudes were of girls that were close to him, done with restrained appreciation. "For anyone who knew only the nudes and portraits of Modigliani's last years," his daughter writes, the artist's life "would seem . . . the quiet manifestation of a mild optimism." He found peace...
...When I saw them march onto that field," says Team Captain Brock Strom, "I got to admit I got kind of choked up." Strom, a burly tackle, wept as he went to midfield for the toss of the coin. "After seeing the rest of the cadets march in,'' says Martin, "I knew our team would rather have died right on the field than fail them." The Falcons promptly played Iowa off its feet for a stunning...
Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions. Tanguy kept up his courage by believing that it was all a "mistake," and that once the authorities found out that he was not Jewish they would send him back to his mother. The word "mistake" recurs through Del Castillo's book and picks up the same rhetorical power...
...five of the most furious, fantastic days and nights in New York's political history, Democratic leaders in Buffalo fought, shoved, shouted and wept-and came perilously close to kicking away their campaign before it even got started. With Governor Averell Harriman an uncontested shoo-in for renomination, the brawl came on the nomination of a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The ultimate nominee: New York County's five-term District Attorney Frank Hogan, 56. The real winner in the party fracas: New York County's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, after a polished display...
...circular grass mound under which are buried the thousands of unidentified victims* of the first A-bomb drop exactly 13 years ago. Green wreaths were soon piled about the mound; a forest of incense sticks smoldered fragrantly. A bell tolled, signaling a minute's silence-but some women wept aloud. Then, watched by the silent crowd, Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe released 800 doves. Ten black-robed Buddhist priests began a solemn, monotonous chant of prayers that would continue until sundown...