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Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scalloy Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffiins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...grad, vintage '58, will putter about his library until he finds a musty purple volume on the bottom shelf of a bookcase. He will flip a few pages, and then, with an arm about his son and a finger next to his picture, the old grad will declare, "By gum, there's your...
Imaginative Artist Ben Shahn, with judicious frugality of line, has portrayed Alec Guinness' anonymity as a man while presenting the mirror image of the actor who lives through the looking glass in his make-believe world of grease paint and spirit gum...
...hand is always out, while his mind is nimbly at work on projects that range from the selling of nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind clings like chewing gum to a shoe: he pops up in a trattoria to spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five?" Giotto forgotten. Fidelman...
...massive extirpation force netted and scatter-gunned the exhausted birds or snared them with long, gum-tipped bamboo poles. At last report 310,000 sparrows had fallen in Peking alone, and an estimated 4,000,000 throughout the rest of Red China. The national hero was Yang Seh-mun, 16, of Yunnan. He had killed 20,000 sparrows by sneaking around during the day locating nesting trees. At night, China Youth proudly reported, he then climbed trees and strangled whole families of sparrows with his bare hands...