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...evil that innocent children can do; of leukemia; in Merioneth, Wales. In the 33 years after A High Wind, a perennial bestseller, Hughes wrote only one novel before he began The Human Predicament, an ambitious trilogy of historical novels set between the World Wars. In The Fox in the Attic (1962), the first volume, England, Germany and the rise of Hitler are seen through the eyes of a young aristocratic liberal, who continues to observe and philosophize about the politics of power in The Wooden Shepherdess (1973). At the time of his death, Hughes was working on the final volume...
...until I found one that fit--midnight blue but baggy--for 13 dollars in a Veteran's Warehouse on the east side ghetto of my hometown. I could borrow the cummerbund from my roommate, and my mother found an ancient pair of suspenders with leather loops up in the attic. All in all it was a big pain in the ass getting all the clothes together--I wore an oversized pair of black Marine shoes--and I don't see why they want it for a speaking contest, hardly a cotillion...
...look, lends a ghoulish touch to the movie. It is almost as if Andy Warhol had decided to film Camelot. "Come in," Edie purrs soothingly, "we're not ready yet." She is thoroughly disorganized--she wears her dresses upside down, empties loaves of Wonderbread for the raccoons in the attic, dons a different makeshift scarf in each sequence to cover her head (which may or may not be bald...
...rock and roll is all based on her poetry. A cultural groupie, it is clear that she has swallowed a lot of influences to have borne the devil child of her work. An article in Rolling Stone about her revealed a whole cast of romantics populating her attic...
...Jefferson, Lucille Ball) or the "nine breeds of dog that bite the most" (among them: German shepherd, chowchow, poodle) or the site of the annual watermelon seed-spitting contest (Paul's Valley, Okla.). Those addicted to the filler material at the bottom of newspaper columns will find an attic's worth of yellowing snippets ("If you had spent $1,000 a day every day since Christ was born, you would not have spent $1 billion...