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...passage cited in the court opinion, a young Salinger vented his anger after Oona O'Neill, whom he had dated, married Charlie Chaplin. "I can see them at home evenings," he wrote. "Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead...
...Spirit" pavilion at the Paris exposition of 1925: bare white walls, stairs made out of steel pipes, only a few restaurant-style chairs. "The house is a machine for living in," said Le Corbusier. This concept became very fashionable, but Rybczynski finds it hopelessly contradictory: "Marble kitchen counters and bamboo window shades . . . a Matisse on the wall and a sleeping mat on the floor...
...film unfolds with various disjointed shots of Benares and its human and animal inhabitants. A farmer picks orange flowers; strong, muscular bodies chop wood; two men assemble a bamboo ladder; white-robed workers hose down flat stone; holy men chant cryptic chants; a small, squeaky boat glides over the river. Then come the bodies, ushering in with them the audience's epiphany. Bodies covered with orange flowers, bodies over flames, bodies on top of bamboo ladders--suddenly, the disjointed pictorial congeals into a single entity. Death. Everyone in this Hindu society lives and labors for their holy deceased...
Hacking, say players, has a long and illustrious--if somewhat apocryphal--history. "In China they do it with a harder ball, in Thailand, with bamboo pieces; in Cambodia, they use nuts hackers report. "But you can play with just about anything...anything circular that is," says Zender...
...final 10 minutes were like bamboo shoots under the fingernails of special teams coaches. First, DiGiacomo booted a 15-yd. ground ball that looked more like an infield hit than a punt...