Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sparger (Eric Ronis) is an actor whose underground theater work and homosexual tendencies seemed to come into existence when Kennedy died. At 16, after three sailors mistakenly pick him up in drag and beat him, he crawls into a coffeehouse and begins a new form of theater with two speed freaks, becoming a caricature of himself. Ronis' performance is the most striking, strong enough to steal the stage, yet held in check. We feel his pain. And the strength of his portrayal is rivaled by that of a method one heroine addict named Mark (Harold Langsam), fresh from the Vietnam...
...example, a band of rampant Yale students got nabbed after painting a six-foot blue "BEAT HARVARD" along the front of Widener Library. The cost of water-blasting the paint off was more than $1000. When asked to comment on the incident a year later. Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis said. "That was a very sick thing...
...driving guitar riffs. The other two members of the band are also quite proficient: Stephan Remmier sings lead with his rough, clear voice as if he had just woken up with bad breath, and produces some nice synthesizer runs; while Peter Behren keeps up a steady (almost monotonous) drum beat...
...began. He had asked me to listen to the debate among his science and budget advisers. It was not a happy discussion. His space men wanted to go, but his budget man, David Elliott Bell, cautioned about spending $40 billion. Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner was not certain we could beat the Soviets to the moon even in ten years. I can still see Kennedy's profile as he put his feet on the edge of the Cabinet table and tilted back, brow deeply furrowed, fingers nervously tapping his bared teeth. His face was clouded through most of the discussion...
This, in various incarnations, is the prototypical figure who has shambled through all the cracklingly intelligent, funny novels of Britain's Malcolm Bradbury, 51. He appeared as a department chairman undermined by the Beat Generation in Eating People Is Wrong (1960); as a writer-in-residence vainly trying to go American in Stepping Westward (1966); and as a bystander steamrollered by trendy, sociology-spouting radicals in The History...