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...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...
Soon after Wasserman purchased theBertha Cohen estate, the Harvard Community Exchange, located in Putnam Square, saw its rent jump from $400 to $2000. El Diablo and Tempura Hut have been forced to shut down and Goodwill is relocating...
Darrach, however, sees it another way. El Diablo and the neighboring Tempura Hut are the first targets for change. The buildings, uninsurable firetraps according to both Beal and Darrach, are slated to be torn down soon. Darrach figures he's got one more month. Like Salo and most others, he doesn't know where he'll relocate. Instead of businesses and their high investments, however, he imagines construction of housing in the area, and gradual redevelopment of the whole square...