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Desperate for a companion, Lena calls out to an old bum (Thomas Anderson) that she spots in the distance, the only other character in the performance. She calls him over to the fire, against Boesman's wishes. Even though the old man speaks only gibberish and doesn't understand what Lena is saying, she pretends that they understand one another...
...oppose going out to die for someone because he is homeless and a bum," said Binswanger. "We pity them...we do not worship them...
...latest book, City, Whyte continues to challenge orthodox urban planning. For one thing, he likes free-floating city congestion. He maintains that gentrification gets a bum rap and that the corporate exodus to the suburbs is stupid. He advocates narrower streets for cars and wider sidewalks for people. Forget exits, he says, it's time to make better doors. The revolving ones at the bottom of most office towers may save energy, but they are hopelessly inefficient at moving people. Cram as many stores as possible along the streets to bring them alive. Do away with skywalks, abolish sunken plazas...
...Henley's favorite tracks, I Will Not Go Quietly ("It kicks ass more than any previous rock-'n'- roll songs I've done"), but nothing is delivered here with the jaded swagger that often got the Eagles branded as a slick bunch of SoCal libertines. That was mostly a bum rap, and it has taken Henley until now not only to find his own voice but also to get his own footing...
...confirmation hearings last month were a love feast. Helms exuded courtesy, calling Baker "Secretary Jim." But the North Carolina Senator and his allies used the occasion to declare themselves on some potentially troublesome issues: Salvadoran rightist Roberto D'Aubuisson may be an admirable patriot who has got a bum rap for the death squads, and Winnie Mandela is a terrorist...