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Born in Paris of Venezuelan parents, Marisol (means "sea and sun" in Spanish) dropped her last name, Escobar, as too masculine-sounding. She came to the U.S. in 1950, settled in Manhattan, and studied with Hans Hofmann. She speaks in the shy monotone whisper of wind wafting through Spanish moss, seems always to be peeking around the corners of her long black hair with nearly expressionless stealth, and only the keenest humor will send a smile rippling across her lips. It is the same face that appears again and again in her art, penciled on wood, cast in plaster, even...
...those final tender moments on the steps when you would cover my ear with kisses and whisper sweetly...
...Haiti's 4,500,000 people, 90% are illiterate. Life expectancy is 32.6 years; per-capita income has slipped to $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere. "Haitians," says Duvalier in his soft whisper, "have a destiny to suffer." And if his people complain, they can pray?from a 63-page Catechism of the Revolution turned out by the Government Printing Office and circulating last week in Port-au-Prince. The Lord's Prayer: "Our Doc who art in the National Palace for Life, hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations, Thy will be done...
...lost in a Miami cell during the extradition proceedings. In the small courtroom, he chatted jocularly with the old cronies and reporters who swarmed around him. Even after the 15 justices had taken their places and the prosecuting attorney started droning through the 417-page indictment, P.J. continued to whisper to newsmen, who had not been allowed to interview him since his return. Among other courtroom comments, some of which were broadcast live on nationwide TV, the unchastened ex-dictator declared with heavy sarcasm: "I am most satisfied with this democratic regime that affords so many guarantees such as getting...
Wolfe describes the area around Shawn's own offices as a Whisper Zone: "a kind of horsehair-stuffing atmosphere of old carpeting, framed New Yorker covers, quiet cubicles and happy-shabby, baked-apple gentility." Within 40 feet of Shawn's office, says Wolfe, everyone whispers in imitation of their sibilant boss. "He always seems to have on about 20 layers of clothes, about three button-up sweaters, four vests, a couple of shirts, two ties, it looks that way, a dark shapeless suit over the whole ensemble, and white cotton socks...