Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David does nothing. Soon after, when the men have almost run David off the road on his way into town, he confronts them in the local pub. David, with a twitching grin, just buys them all a drink. Several days later, the workmen lead David off on a snipe hunt, and while he sits in a field, holding a shotgun, two of the men sneak back and rape his wife...
Peckinpah himself likes to hunt game, "not for sport," but skinning and eat ing his catch. He has also been known to end an argument by using his fists, even against women. Disputes with producers and colleagues earned him such a reputation for cantankerousness that the big studios finally boycotted him for seven years. Peckinpah's enemies describe him as "weird" and "dictatorial," but he doesn't seem to mind. "I'm not a fascist," he says, "but I am something of a totalitarian...
...level went about as expected," said Coach Pappy Hunt. "They (B.C.) had nothing. Their school is not as fortunate as Harvard in the way they run their athletic program...
...with a guitar," was quite at home. Fresh from 20 years in prison, he had taught himself the finer points of brainwashing, although there he had used it only to stir up support for the prison baseball team. Now, in the Summer of Love, with thousands of rabbits to hunt, coyote-man was ecstatic. As Sanders explains it, "Manson carried this (Ken Kesey's initial acid experimentation) onward, making it evil, slowly changing the colors, the red tempura becoming dog blood, the acid test turning to psychedelic satanism, the filming of happiness turning to the filming of hapless murder...
...famous burrowings and borrowings in Baudelaire, Buddha, Frazer's Golden Bough, the Fisher King legend, Shakespeare, the prophet Ezekiel, Ecclesiastes, Dante's Inferno, Rupert Brooke, Richard Wagner, Verlaine, Aeschylus, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Oliver Goldsmith originally helped make the poem the perennial undergraduate's hunt-and-peck guide to instant culture. But there appear to be no direct transplants from Pound. Except for an odd "an" or "who," he inserted only two words into The Waste Land: "demobbed" for "coming back out of the Transport Corps," and "demotic" to replace "abominable" when Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna...