Word: hairier
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...word play that Beatle John Lennon, 23, dotes on, and since he writes it down, Simon and Schuster decided to publish it. Come April 20, In His Own Write will go on sale for $2.50. Excerpted in last week's Satevepost, Lennon's "graphospasms" were even hairier than the songs he helps write. "Little did he nose," writes Lennon "that the next day a true story would actually happen." He peoples his retelling of Treasure Island with Large John Saliver, Small Jack Hawkins, Blind Jew, Cpt. Smellit and Sten Gunn. "As far as I'm conceived...
Branch of Fisticuffs. Technically, this is a work of belles-lettres, in which Algren appears in the ambiguous role of the anti-intellectual intellectual. The spectacle of a literary man proving that he is hairier than a Rotarian is sadly familiar in the history of American letters, most notably in the person of Ernest Hemingway, who was prone to discuss literature as if it were a branch of fisticuffs. Algren goes the old master one worse by writing about books and boxing as if both were rackets...
Over the years, only one hairier man had shown up for the May Day festivities in Moscow. He was Karl Marx, whose visage scowled down from a thousand placards every time the comrades met on the atheists' Easter. But on May Day this year, Muscovites whistled, cheered and stamped their feet for that popular fellow, The Other Beard...
Sanctuary (20th Century-Fox) is Hollywood's second attempt to make a movie of Author William Faulkner's woolhat horror story of murder, impotence and rape in Mississippi. As in The Story of Temple Drake (1933), most of the hairier moments of the original novel (which Faulkner frankly wrote "to make money") have been clipped, and the film dissolves into just another jugful of Hollywood's standard Southern Discomfort...