Word: bums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haunted Halls. With nudging from his mother, John's writing career began at the age of eight, when he sat down at her typewriter and pecked out his first story, beginning: "The tribe of Bum-Bums looked very solemn as they sat around their cosy cave fire." Even with this early start, his writing career lagged three years behind his parallel interest in cartooning and painting: he had had a collage published in a children's magazine when he was five...
...impulsive Vail reaction to a story well done: "Terrific, just terrific!" Investigative reporting became the order of the day. Lawyers were shown to be collecting large fees from estates without heirs. Wretched conditions at children's welfare homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from the defunct New York World Journal Tribune to "dress up Cleveland's women...
Ergo consists of a series of episodic developments in the rivalry between a lusty, gusty bum called Wacholder, who wallows in a mountainous litter of crumpled papers and stacked cartons, and his neighbor Wurz. An obsessive-compulsive bacteriophobe, Wurz even dresses in a sterile white jump suit and dons a surgical mask and rubber gloves to have sexual intercourse with his masked, gloved wife...
Sometimes the camera holds too long. A motorcycle idles along for ninety seconds, a dull out-of-focus journey, a bum trip. In another scene six consecutive point-of-view shots reach for tedium. But the hiatus of time often catches qualities unnoticed by a tick-tock eye. A long closeup--almost a still--of Samantha's fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs...
...Francis quickly gives himself away as a cranky, querulous old man. To hear him tell it, Gipsy Moth's designer and builders created a rolling, roundheeled bitch, and girdling the globe alone is as bum a trip as anything this side of LSD. Still, the curt, seamanlike account should be required study for any weekend sailor inclined to emulate Sir Francis' accomplishment. As Sir Francis notes at one point: "I had no feeling of romance about the voyage yet but, of course, seasickness is very anti-romantic." By the end of Chapter 10, most readers will be willing...