Word: bumming
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...says, "I'm trying to prove that I can make it on my own." Indeed, he would rather bunk down in a concrete corner of a bus depot than check into any city shelter. "I went to one once, but there was nothing there but bums. I ain't no bum and it will never come to that. I'm a normal guy," Hanshaw says. "I just ain't got a home...
...hailstorm of bullets. It is this ferocity, plus the complementary fusillade of four-letter language (the commonest four-letter obscenity is, by conservative count, uttered 181 times), that originally won Scarface the poisonous X rating from the Motion Picture Association's ratings board. It was a bum rap and was overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist...
...definitely not a bum," adds Atau Tanaka '85. "Although he seems that way to people at first. Tanaka explains, "he's financially quite responsible, he's not freeloading off anyone, he's not begging...
...sturdy team just three years ago, Houston recalls the spark of its demolition as the 1980 firing of Country Coach Bum Phillips, whose fame, in the opinion of Owner Bud Adams, had become excessive. When the prairie was in fashion, Phillips was both Will Rogers and the Marlboro man come to life. On every other billboard in Houston, he recommended pointy-toed boots made out of everything from ostriches to anteaters to dead dogs in the road...
...director does create a few inspired and captivating images. The knights vie for Thaisa as hockey-masked, business-suited drag racers; the final act heightens Pericles' dejection by portraying him as a dirty bearded Howard Hughes bum in a box: a single swinging light on a black stage conjures a violent storm. And the opening, with narrator Brother Blue emerging from a turquoise pool of light and fog, works well. Simple scenes in the hands of Sellars can become striking: the discovery of Thaisa's coffin by villagers plays hauntingly, though many other poignant scenes fall flat. Background music takes...