Word: bummed
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...obscure album containing drawings of every single painting exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1801. David had boycotted the exhibition - but the album contained several works by Constance Charpentier that year, including the painting thought to have been a David. Recently Dealer Wildenstein went back to the same al bum, which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read: "Mme. Davin-Mirvault, portrait of Signor Bruni, composer, former conductor of the orchestra at the Opéra-Buffa...
After 64 years under the constraints of "neckties, shoelaces and cultivated conversation." Playwright Thornton Wilder decided to take a two-year sabbatical from civilization and "head out into that Arizona desert to be a bum." Wilder's timetable: "The first year, I'll give up the razor -and the second year, soap." The prospective site of his retreat: "Some place halfway between Nogales and Tucson -a place where I can hit the bars in both towns with equal ease. It will be a place where I'll pat little Mexican children on the head . . . a little white...
...Abominable Snowman. In the work of Allen Ginsberg, the only projective poet who gives evidence of important talent, excrement is of the poetic essence. After eight years on the bum, Ginsberg sat down at 29 and wrote Howl, a sort of abstract-expressionist Waste Land that established him overnight as "the Abominable Snowman of modern poetry." (Like that's the most, man.) Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind. Moloch...
...With the help of a dumb broad (Rita Hay worth) and a clever painterfeiter (Joseph Wiseman), Rex artnaps a Velásquez from a castle in Spain. But a sinister grandee (Grégoire Aslan) steals it back, and before long bodies are dropping almost as fast as bum mots ("I want so much to be a first-class crook for you, darling"). Rita, 42 when this picture was made, and Rex, 53, are both old enough to know better...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter, infuses two brothers and a verminous bum with ripples of humor, glints of malice, and a passionate regard and disregard for one another's common humanity...