Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrator of The G.A.N. is an 87-year-old retired sportswriter named Word Smith, a broad patch off Colonel John R. Stingo, the uninhibited prose stylist who wrote a column for the old New York Evening Enquirer. Smith, an inebriate of alliteration in a hounds-tooth overcoat, has dedicated his last years to resurrecting the national memory of the Patriot League. According to Smith, it was a third major league that has been made the American equivalent of a Soviet unperson through a conspiracy of silence. How this came about is Smith's story, so shaggy, discursive and bizarre...
...then Farmer Brown will frown on the old briar patch and call it wasteland and threaten to clear away all the bushes and trees," wrote Author Thornton Burgess in 1947, in "The Old Briar Patch." But in the end Farmer Brown always decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby...
...people of Sandwich were fear ful that real estate developers might have plowed under the old patch and constructed more of the motels and quick-food outlets that already blight much of Cape Cod. Farmer Brown's son would have approved. When his father grew doubtful about preserving the patch, the boy would remind him: "It is the safest place anywhere for some of our most useful friends in fur and feathers. You know...
...nearly bowled over by a bearded giant in blue jeans with a LOVE patch sewn on his backside, a KEEP ON TRUCKIN' T shirt stretched across his chest, and a fuzzy tam-o'-shanter perched on his head. He is squeezing the hand of his girl friend, a teased blonde in a Day-Glo orange pantsuit and sequined glasses, carrying a suitcase-size black patent leather handbag and a bag of candy. They crunch along through the litter of wrappers and handbills toward the star attraction, the dazzling Muzi-Kart, a customized 1933 Willys...
...note that leads two Tennessee hill families into range warfare. The plot is infernally complex, while the idea- an allegory about aggression and the mad carnage it can cause- is simpleminded, like symbolizing the Viet Nam War (or any war) by a skirmish in a papaw patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless excess, a puppet dedicated to self-parody...