Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty typical incident in Robison's life, her early years being spent "all over the map, getting married, having children, being a hobo, a socialist..." Robison even looks the part of a carefree bohemian. "I love the way she looks like what you would imagine in a stereotypical writer: she smokes nonstop, she drinks lots of black cofee, has wild hair and funky bracelets," says Elizabeth L. Buckley '87, a first-time student in Robison's creative writing course...
...from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys afraid to graduate into an unwelcoming world, from a ruined multimillionaire to a scrounging hobo. These are often archetypes, but just as often their circumstances have been drawn from historical record. The documentary aura is heightened by two dozen popular songs ironically interposed (The Joint Is Jumpin', How Long Blues, Sittin' Around...
...hard-drinking hobo, fortified wines like Thunderbird and Night Train are the beverages of choice. On Jan. 1, the city of Portland, Oregon, with firm backing from Mayor Bud Clark, banned the sale of the firewater in the Skid Road area downtown. Trouble is, the street people began migrating to tonier uptown neighborhoods to buy their favorite drinks, unnerving well- heeled shoppers and merchants...
...written a book on the subject, Designing Pictorial Symbols, released last week by Watson-Guptill. (A previous book by Holmes, Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams, was published last year.) Holmes' new book contains extensive research into the history of graphic symbols. "It goes back to picture writing, hobo signs, even cave paintings of the Southwest American Indians," he explains. "And, of course, flags, which helped armies recognize their own people in olden times...
Outside the theater, blacks were becoming hard to ignore, and their impact was refracted on the screen. "When schools were being desegregated," recalls Danny Glover, a likely Oscar nominee for his performance as the hobo in Places in the Heart, "you saw Poitier become a film star. And in the wake of the Watts riots and the push for community control, you got blaxploitation." These were the low-budget gangster and horror movies that, along with prestige efforts like Sounder and Lady Sings the Blues, detonated the explosion of black films in the early '70s. Suddenly directors like Gordon...