Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute of the blaring rock and roll that his roommates were playing back at his room, stared at the heavy wooden doors of the library, then pushed them open and walked inside. The attendant looked up from his desk. "Is there someplace here where I can read?" the boy asked, fingering the book in his hand...
...Boy-o-Buoy...
...that modest illumination, John Cleary (Jack Albertson) and his wife Nettie (Patricia Neal) welcome home their son Timmy (Martin Sheen) from World War II. Ostensibly the occasion is a celebration. But beneath the boozy jubilation rages another war-one between a mother and father for the possession of their boy...
...semiautobiographical first novel, The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski told of a six-year-old Eastern European city boy who is set adrift in the countryside during World War II and physically and emotionally brutalized by peasants. The painfully symbolic title refers to one rustic's practice of daubing a captured bird with bright colors, releasing it, and then watching an incensed flock peck it to death...
...woman and a "large animal" and wonders whether her cries are just part of the act. He hovers over the body of a woman wasting away with TB. He humiliates a girl by talking on the telephone while making love to her. In another episode, he is again the boy in a hostile village. But now he strikes back by feeding fishhooks to the children of his tormentors...