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...York City's Greenwich Village this winter, odd-shaped metal boxes and barbed wire were placed across hot-air exhaust grates to keep homeless people from sleeping in the neighborhood. A center helping the homeless in downtown San Diego burned in a fire classified as arson. And in Santa Cruz, Calif., where vagrants are called trolls, the police brass felt it necessary to warn their officers not to wear TROLL BUSTER T shirts while off duty...
...late 1950s, McDarrah was a strange cross between Beat writer and camera buff who once started a successful "Rent a Beatnik" enterprise, charging 5-40 for a Beatnik to appear at cocktail parties. His photographs of his Greenwich village buddies and his selection of commentaries from the time make up an eclectic collage...
...another history of the Beat Generation, hardler to pin down--a history of self-images both consciously and unconsciously created. Their writings show an attachment to the urban landscape, even the ugliness, and to the hip areas in America--San Francisco's North Beach and New York's Greenwich Village in New York. They see themselves as hope-seekers, wild partyers and holy madmen...
...where his passion for good eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica and antique wineglass rinsers in his handsome Greenwich Village town house. The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness Sherlock Holmes coats he often wore accented an epicurean life-style that would have fit grandly in the Edwardian...
...immigrants from Germany, Goetz was born in New York City but spent most of his childhood in small towns upstate. A divorcee with no children, Goetz began operating his own company, Electrical Calibrations Laboratories, out of a sparsely furnished apartment on the fringe of Greenwich Village in 1976. Neighbors describe him as a quiet, humorless man whose efforts to rid the community of derelicts, muggers and drug dealers were marred by occasional racist outbursts...