Word: bummed
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Little Tony, Tough Tony, Fat Tony, Tony Boy, Tony the Bum, Tony the Sheik, Tony the Geep, Tony Bananas and Tony Cheese; Frankie the Bug, Frank the Wop, Frank the Boss and Big Frank; Hoboken Joe, Joe from Pelham Bay, Crazy Joey, Joe Palisades and Staten Island Joe; Charlie Bullets and Charlie the Blade; Trigger Mike, Skinny Mike and Black Mike; Black Jim, Jimmy Blue Eyes, Jimmy the Blond and Jimmy the Sniff; Johnny Bath Beach and John the Bug; Mr. Gribs and The Gap, Kid Blast and The Sidge; The Sheik and The Cat; Benny the Bum, Teddy...
...Caretaker" the three bodies are two schizophrenic brothers and a bum. The younger brother, Mick (Donald Berry), has given a dilapidated old house to his brother Aston (James Leo Herlihy) so that Aston will have a job: fixing up the house. It is into the small, cluttered garret of this house--Aston's bedroom--that Aston brings a sly, slavering vagrant, Davies (Richard Shepard), for shelter...
...Only the bum Davies evolves. The transformation from an amusing parasite to a hateful, leaching, divisive worm startles, because afterwards one knows the worm was there in the parasite, but one did not see it. And as Davies is transformed, the three bodies move off into their skewwed, non-interesting orbits...
What is a young man to do today if he has a genuine urge to become a bum? The modern world is tougher on the vagrant than all previous civilizations. Hitler herded Europe's gypsies into Dachau and Buchenwald along with the Jews; the Soviets liquidated the bez-prizornye; the Welfare State frowns on the free-roving tramp; the American hobo has nearly died out, and even the Australian swagman, so mournfully celebrated in the national song, has become almost extinct...
...chance, as much as strength and skill, is always a part of bulldogging. It begins with the draw, by lot, for the stock, and like a torero with a bad bull, a cowboy with a bum steer is faced with a pointless afternoon. "There's some steers that won't cooperate," drawls Bynum. "The thing you like is a small, long neck, with good horns, not real long, not real short...