Word: bum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel. Every time he opens his mouth, he picks at the scab of past wrongs and present hates. A wily slum serf, the tramp raises a mock one-finger salute to his masters, and plays the brothers off against each other. They, in turn, offer him the nebulous post of care taker, and finally, in mutual revulsion, cast him out to an unknown fate...
...hours to "do" Perle Mesta, and to Europe for two months as Jennifer Jones's personal hairdresser. His income this year will be $65.000. but George is dissatisfied ("If I could do what I want. I'd give it all up and be a beach bum...
...stroke loses all his human rights-and properties. Without money, without clothes, without shelter, without food, he begins to live the dog's life he deserves. As he wanders the streets, dogs yap at him, boys kick at him, motorists use him for target practice. A bum sells him to a sausage factory...
...painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...
...Sand Castle. A gay and whimsical satire on sun worshipers and beach-bum muscle growers, centering on a little boy who builds a castle in the sand...