Word: kelp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books he devoured as a child, feeding the fantasy life that he turned into elegant reality. He took his two talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded of a bewildered porter), but was a first-class action-film director (The Jungle Book, Sahara). Vincent, Author Michael Korda's father, was an art director who could do the spectacular on a shoestring but never abandoned his bohemian ways. At the height of his career he sometimes...
...redwood house above the shifting kelp beds and nocturnal sea of Carmel, an old man is playing the piano, not too well. The room is large, worn and comfortable, decked with the heterogeneous souvenirs of a long life?rows of Indian pottery, elegantly woven tribal baskets and a huge Chinese ceremonial drum. The piano player's head, a bald mass, gleams in the light. His hands, swollen from arthritis, hardened by decades of immersion in darkroom chemicals, skitter over the keys, assaulting the same phrase again and again. "Damn," he says, "I've lost it." But not altogether. Once...