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Word: benching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. In this sprightly first novel, a witty but deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer and master painter tells of the ludicrous events that made him a forger and murderer anxious to meet and kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...What kind of tale can possibly evolve from such a gallimaufry of trivia? A dreamer on a park bench, a dim-witted bird fancier, a dead cat, an eight-year-old boy, a picture dealer, a handful of pigeons and an insurance agent-hardly the cast of War and Peace, I must agree." So speaks the witty but slightly (?) deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer, master painter and hero (?) of this fantastical and compelling first novel. The unlikely tale that does evolve draws the unwitting narrator into a plot to palm off one of his works as a Leonardo da Vinci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dreams of Disorder | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...narrator's real name is never known, although he assumes names such as Lou Garrou, a play on the French word for werewolf. But beginning with his park-bench encounters and reveries -which are somewhat reminiscent of James Purdy's Malcolm-both narrator and reader are plunged into the dark underside of a surrealist life as lived by some decidedly improper Bostonians. Altogether betrayed by his faithless wife and conniving business agent who tricks him into painting the Da Vinci forgery, the narrator complains that he has been tipped into a "maelstrom of false marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dreams of Disorder | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Ionesco's Maid to Marry shares the second act with Apple Bit, and director Mary King Austin chose just the right juxtaposition. Its eminently civilized lady and gentleman are quite absurd. They sit on a 1950's park bench and vacillate between violently tearing up the Times and making profound comments on professions, future, past, ungrateful children. Not a wild west thriller by any means. Still, the patter's amusing...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: 3 Absurdities | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

While sophomore Dale Dover has established himself as one of the League's best drivers, he has not shot well from the outside and, with his proclivity for committing offensive fouls, Dover often finds himself sitting on the bench, leaving the offense to Chris Gallagher and, occasionally Eric Gustavson. If Gallagher, who is playing the best basketball of his career scores 32 points against Yale and Brown (Saturday night also at the IAB), he will move into 10th place on the all-time Harvard scoring list...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard Five Faces Yale Under IAB Roof Tonight | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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