Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accuser. It could be quite an encounter. Mastriana's police record includes arrests for gambling, grand larceny, forgery, aggravated assault and possession of the contents of stolen mail. Three years ago, he was declared mentally incompetent by a New Jersey court. "He's the greatest bull artist in the world," a Florida police official said of Mastriana last week...
HARROWING. The poignant blue skies, the silver-clear air, the surf splashing on the rocky coast proved irresistible to Bob and Jan Plunkett (not their real names) when they vacationed in Maine four years ago. A year later, Bob quit his city job as a commercial artist, and the couple sank all of their $26,000 savings in a partially completed home 15 feet from the waves on an inlet in Maine...
...this mission, he gets a certain amount of support and comic relief from two Americans named Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly). Roper is a fast-talking scam artist; Williams is black and supposedly a prodigious sexual athlete...
...famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn't swim in." She thought, says Hellman sharply, "that nobody could buy her. She was wrong: they could and did for years." It is a rather sad irony that the book should be called Pentimento, an artist's term for an old image that reappears through later repainting done on a canvas. Singular and moving memories flicker everywhere, but few emerge clearly...
Nobody could be clearer about the incomprehensibility of the world than Franz Kafka. Novels such as The Trial and The Castle, stories such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Hunger Artist" and "The Burrow" are the Grimm's fairy tales of the modern cloven spirit. Ordinary men awake to find they are helpless insects, or are found guilty of unknown crimes by unknown judges. One man wastes away in a cage, not because he is being starved but because he has never found the kind of food he might want. No grails are to be found in Kafka, no word...