Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches for his purpose. Still, the picture was no distortion of fact: in the Gonzaleses one-room apartment Cameraman Ballot found an inexhaustible supply of his crawling photographic prop...
...after that out-of-Capote beginning, Director Blake Edwards (High Time) goes on to an out-of-character end. On the conventional but dubious assumption that every kook belongs in some nice guy's kitchen, he induces poor Holly to give up mattress money for matrimony. As the nice guy, George Peppard scarcely makes the alternative seem attractive -he has that I-went-to-college-but-it-didn't-do-any-good look of the sort of Harvardman who couldn't even get a job in Washington. And Audrey Hepburn, though she plays with fluent...
...resigned at any time, but I didn't see how I could go home to face my friends and family." Abrams swiped food from the mess hall, anointed an upper-classman's radiator with Limburger cheese, kept a contraband radio in a hollowed-out corner of his mattress, and plinked away at the hindquarters of upperclassmen with an air rifle. Recalls Abrams: "The only thing in which I was outstanding was discipline. I was at the bottom of the class." What with his guerrilla warfare against the Point, Abrams stood a mediocre 185th in his class...
...lack of a table produces informality and greater participation," says one director of Hartford's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. "When you can see the chairman's garters, or lack of them, it somehow stimulates conversation." Adds Grant Simmons Jr., president of the mattress-making Simmons Co.: "The only thing that a board table really gives is doodling space. And as we have been trying to promote the idea that you spend a third of your life in bed, the old table and stiff, high-backed chairs just seemed too ascetic." Even more informal are the plans...
Buffalo, Melody Fair Tent Theater: Old Stone Face Buster Keaton in Once Upon a Mattress...