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...picture has good, straightforward, and above all, spontaneous dialogue. Unlike many prison pictures with cruel guards and an innocent prisoner, Hellgate does not try to make the prisoners seem long suffering, bean geste heroes...
...which he later hacked Mister Johnson, it was the story of an African girl bursting with savage life who tried her pagan best to be a Christian; the inevitable friction burnt her alive. In spite of its authentic glare and beat, the book sold badly and Gary "got no bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch was made a Book Society choice and earned him about ?700. In 1938 came Castle Corner, a long, slow-paced novel of Anglo-Irish...
Paris, and soon after his discharge he went back to see some more of it. By 1920 he was living in a Left Bank lodging house, eating bean soup in a restaurant "so cheap not even Frenchmen would go there," and hearing excited talk about Corbusier and the new German moderns...
...went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved intact to new locations...
Local justice ordered the new landlords to pay the old a fair price for the bean fields, but the question of what to do about a displaced quarter-mile of vital state highway still remained. Like a link of pontoon bridge that has drifted downstream, one stretch of the highway lay useless at the valley's bottom, and the vagrant mountain sat camel-like astride the rest. Jordan's ministers estimated that it would cost $400,000 and 40,000 man-days of labor to push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand...