Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is not truly the finish, since the play-bizarre, hallucinatory and electrifying-is framed within a play. Hadrian VII ends where it begins, in the bare, shabby lodgings of an eccentric, starving, middle-aged writer named Frederick William Rolfe as the bailiffs arrive to strip him even of the manuscript of his novel. The papal reign has all been a dream, an illusion: the primal stuff of theater...
...then, my heart was beating fast and I expected wonderful things to happen to me. I removed my shoes at the entrance of the house, as I was told. When the assistant, with her secret, joyous smile, motioned me upstairs, I followed her wordlessly up and into a small bare room, where I was to wait...
...church at age eleven and had started composing at 13, so he decided to go to Hollywood and be a songwriter. He wangled a $50-a-week job with a recording studio and rented a cheap apartment, where he slept curled up in a blanket on the bare floor. When, on top of everything else, his romance with a San Bernardino coed broke up, it seemed like the end. But it was the beginning...
...Savage Seven begins with a bare-chested Indian looming in the foreground, knife in hand. Another brave leaps forward and they begin to grapple to the death. Then comes an offscreen voice, "Will you guys quit screwing around?" The time is the present, and the Indians are a bunch of tribesmen trapped in a California poverty pocket. From out of the hills comes the Enemy, on wheels-and suddenly the ignoble savages find themselves in a stereotypical motorcycle picture...
...stained TV and said: "I've got trouble. My 14-year-old, he just got stabbed in the eye with a knife. The doctor's afraid he's goinq to lose it." Another son, a towheaded boy with a soot-smeared face, gave up playing with his bare toes and rapped the iron bedstead with a broken piece of cast iron. His mother rapped him clear across the room. The woman's husband is mentally deficient and unable to work. Her sons are "waterheads."* The woman said that the knifed 14-year-old had not been treated for six years...