Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's a Nice Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes is Wolff's daily chronicle of his two years in the minors. It's one of those nice, easy-to-read, amusing sports biographies that doesn't try to define baseball vis-a-vis life...
There's no peripheral vision, there's no movement. What after all, you might ask yourself, are all of these people looking at? The boy in the plaid coat is looking at something on his face--his teeth it seems, (maybe he's appalled by his braces), the woman next to him is looking at something outside the frame. What could it be? Can you say this is a faithful reproduction of reality if you can't even tell what people are looking at? Not the woman who looks shocked by something outside the picture, the same picture in which...
...roofs in a picture of a family at the fair, Uncle Sam gesturing to the thin air next to a telephone pole, all of these attest to the madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become disquieted by the rough curve of the Great Pink Snail's pond and the parallel curve of the fence. Or cry when you see the lovers in front of the Rabbit house, if while...
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Something old and something new this weekend. A new movie theater opened last night, the Galeria, located in that space-age shopping mall on Boylston Street. Their first film, A Boy and His Dog with Don Johnson and Jason Robards, is also about the space-age. The hype for the movie warns "no one admitted after the performance starts...it has to be seen from the beginning!" It's based on a science-fiction novella by Harlan Ellison of the same name. Blast...