Word: huts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the tragedy Aroyo was a crushed man, hut he strained to be compassionate. "I do not hate the people who did this," he said. Few Israelis felt that way about...
...only sounds of life come from a screened hut with a sign on it that says CORNER NUDE STAND. Inside, a pretty young woman is dancing nude to a jukebox; the other patrons, mostly older males, sit drinking beer, droning apathetically and ignoring the woman. A sign on the wall says NUDI BURGERS. MORE MEAT LESS DRESSING. Hocker sits down, sips a Coke and brightens somewhat. "I pioneered in nudism, you know" he shouts over the music. "We were the first nudist place to serve beer, and we were first with nude dancing. This place has attracted your professional people...
...following year. Now, as he stood contemplating his small frame house, visions of beautiful ladies in Thailand and Singapore, heaving ships at sea, castles on the Rhine bubbled through his brain. He seized his 3-in. brush and green semigloss enamel and began to paint a small grass hut on one wall. It wasn't bad, considering that he had never painted a picture in his life. By the end of the day, the wall was decorated with glassy-eyed maidens and churning waves, and Sanford Darling had found a new career...
...shirt speckled with house paint, Sanford Darling seems to be at peace with himself. "There's so much to paint yet," he says. "Why, I haven't even started on the bedrooms. What do you think I ought to put in that front room? Little grass hut in Penang? Castle over in Germany...
...Francisco poet Gary Snyder. It was Snyder whom Kerouac used as the model for his main character, "Japhy Ryder," in The Dharma Bums, a novel that takes place in the early days of the West Coast Beats. "Japhy Ryder" is a poet and Orientalist who lives in a hut in a Berkeley backyard and who spends much of his time sitting on the grass mats on the floor of his hut studying Oriental texts, and sipping tea. There are three pictures of Gary Snyder in Scenes Along the Road. One shows him sitting cross-legged in his Berkeley hut with...