Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sing songs I can't connect with." Bok, however, can make some arcane connections. Sources for songs include Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "an acquaintance with a few local seals, and a series of very striking dreams" that provide Bok with images of burnt skies and a world ruled by wind. He seasons his shanties with Gaelic and Eskimo and has attempted a Mongolian tune now and again too. "I don't sing anything I don't understand," Bok says. "But the Mongolians I learned these songs from didn't understand them...
...camera to England, where the Muppets' TV show is taped, and did a test with Henson and the others in a meadow. As he was shooting, a cow wandered over to have a look at Fozzie. The results were amazingly good; the brown cow and the puppet covered with burnt-orange fake fur looked as natural together as Newman and Redford...
...have time for late Chagall or post-1939 Dali. Nevertheless, De Chirico's career was so uneven as to have been unique. His impact on art would probably have been the same if he had died in 1920 instead of 1978. He was the epitome of the artist as burnt-out case...
Belisle describes himself as a "burnt out" case. The condition is familiar to child-abuse workers, whose divorce rate is above the national average. They suffer a notably high proportion of nervous breakdowns. After a few years on the job, many leave the service to earn a living in totally different fields in order to escape the tension and responsibility. Belisle, at least, still works for the protective service. But he does not go out on cases. He sits at the phone in the screening room. Phone work, screening incoming reports on child abuse, is at least one remove from...
...Other Stories of several years ago. Here, in a disjointed narrative, he gives a low-key, comic and rather appealing picture of "the Screwery," a band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops to be sold as the real thing. They progress to grimmer matters, among them the kidnaping of a South American police official...