Word: caravaners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gypsy Caravan. Augustus John was born in the Welsh seacoast town of Tenby, the son of the leading barrister in town. He discovered his talent for drawing early, at 18 entered the University of London's Slade School of Fine Art. He let his hair and beard grow, adopted whatever garb-flowing smocks, trailing scarves, bright bandannas-that seemed appropriate to a budding genius. Thus the legend of Augustus John began...
...Blonde with Parrots. Experts pored over the empty butane-gas cylinder wrapped with 22 Ibs. of explosive that burned but did not bang, examined the site a half mile away where an accomplice had flashed his auto headlights to warn of the approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs...
...seaport near Marseille, De Plata is of the best flamenco tradition. He is illiterate, cannot even read music. His father was a horse trader who taught his son the guitar and encouraged him ("Manita, you have remarkable hands"). For the next 20 years, roaming southern France in the caravan, De Plata stayed out of school to spend his time practicing and listening to other gypsy players...
Polite Police. At the Mississippi line a similar escort, but with fixed bayonets, picked up the caravan for the trip to Jackson. Someone hurled a rock at the bus, but most of the spectators just stared, took pictures, or waved derisively...
...lost her speech in infancy and "grown up wild." Well, then, "Believe! Believe and say 'God!' Say it! Say it!" Salome, swept away by George's oil-slick, sensual emotionalism, says it-"God!"-again and again "in humility and gratitude and ecstasy." George runs a traveling caravan that swizzles bourbon with its brimstone, and Salome, or Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances...