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...their best to enslave me." Gauguin finally settled down in Tahiti, where he did his most dazzling work. It is almost impossible to believe that his pictures were painted by a man whose legs were corroded by eczema, and who ended up, half blind, "swinging slowly in the hammock, moaning, cursing...
William Holden's excuse for being in the movie is that he is large and muscular, and can make astounding faces. He is called upon to do this from time to time: when sitting down on two champagne glasses, when falling through a hole in a hammock, etc. Holden doesn't get to say a great deal in the movie, but he drives badly, a clear indication that he is wild, wicked and rich...
Some books are destined, not for the ages, but for the nearest hammock. Elliot Paul's Desperate Scenery and Alexandra Orme's Paris Original are light summer fare, earmarked for twin hammocks stamped "His" and "Hers." Author Paul who often as not writes about Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature...
...humorous peak with a description of the night the brothel burned down in Ashton, Idaho, and "the quick thinkers routed out those who chanced to be relaxing in the bedrooms ..." Happily, sporting life a la Paul never gets quite so outrageous that it cannot be thoroughly enjoyed by hammock-readers of either...
Eleven months Billy labors; the twelfth he rests with his wife, three daughters and baby boy, and a Great Pyrenees dog named Belshazzar. The Graham family lives in a six-room, grey stone house in Montreal, N.C. with picture windows, rhododendrons, a hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord...