Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STEEL ARENA. A bunch of stunt drivers tool around the back country risking their necks for the breezy hell of it, living out some shabby fantasy of success. The drivers are all portrayed by real stunt drivers, which gives the cast a unifying verisimilitude and a certain brazen clumsiness in the expository scenes. These are scant, presumably because everyone is more comfortable behind the wheel. But even the various automobile stunts begin to lose their punch the third time around. The plot, almost inevitably, concerns the one driver who wants to push the risk a little further, and how fate...
...Everyone bunch together," Kent orders before his entourage unloads. "If we run in quickly, maybe they won't recognize us." No one is there to greet his band, of course, save a few early drunks leaving the Ale House. "Damn," he says. "They spotted us. I hate it when they rip off my clothes." The Sweat Band gets only passing attention as they push their way to the stage...
...cramming as many bathing-beauties and sand castles and rotting rowboats into the scene as possible. But in a 1972 print of the same technique, the photographer no longer shows off, he studies. In this case it is nature that he examines, an intricate detail of a small bunch of crocuses...
...plunked their forty-five cents into the farebox, and moved to the rear, the driver repeating his drone, "Don't forget your fares, please, your fares." Meanwhile, the elderly woman next to me had been leaning forward towards the floor; she reached down awkwardly, coming back up with a bunch of dollar bills as wrinkled as her paste-white hands. Thoroughly bewildered, she looked...
...President Nixon's news conference, he reminded me of a gladiator surrounded by a bunch of vicious animals...