Word: patching
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Much of the art of making friends is concentrated in patch swapping, a singular ritualistic encounter. On towels and blankets all over the campsite, patches are displayed and haggled over like items in a Cairo bazaar. Value is determined by color, design and availability; among the most prized are patches that were discontinued because of defects in their manufacture. No money is exchanged. Money, after all, is not the point. Says Scott Sippel, 14, of Houston: "You improve your collection. You get a Scout's address and you write him. You become pals...
...bones in an okra patch lead to a prehistoric...
...Stevens gave her an idea. Says she: "He told me that if I gained 30 Ibs. I could successfully make the transition to leading character actress and I would work all my life." She did, and has since won two Oscars (The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959, and A Patch of Blue, 1965) while acting at varying weights -but "the fat pictures are the ones that are big and successful...
...orphan cub, is taken in and raised by kindly Widow Tweed, whose farm occupies a patch of rural terrain somewhere in the American midcentury. Down the road a pace is the shack of Amos Slade, a grizzled old hunter who keeps a grizzled old hound dog named Chief and a cheerful hound pup, Copper...
Russell, looking like the Hathaway Shirt Hit Man in his hokey eye-patch, fares a bit better, but even he can't seem to figure out whom he is supposed to be. And Pleasance looks thoroughly embarrassed by his fate, as he lugs his fleshy body across the screen. (Question #1: Why is it that the people who play the President in movies always look like Adlai Stevenson? Question #2: If Adlai looked so much like a president, why did he always lose...