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...Parts of his life, too, lay separate from other parts. His wife knew almost none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked; it wasn't in a safe part of town, their mother said. Last month's hobby-the restringing of a damaged pawnshop banjo, with an eye to becoming suddenly musical at the age of 42-bore no resemblance to this month's hobby, which was the writing of a science fiction novel that would make him rich and famous. He was writing about the death of earth...
...makes twelve more stops in the hour and a half before reaching Graceland, and all of them have a poignant meaning for the fans. They see the boarded-up men's shop on Beale Street where Elvis bought his first sequined suit. They see Nathan Novick's pawnshop, where he got his first guitar at the age of eleven. They stop at St. Joseph Hospital, where his mother worked as a nurse's aide, and the public housing apartment on Exchange Street where the family lived. When they stop at Humes High School, Diane says...
Edward F. Chamberlain, House superintendent since 1947, later explained that the handmade key of hospitality originally fit two of the Kirkland House gates. In 1932 it disappeared, only to be found in 1956 in a New Hampshire pawnshop by a Harvard graduate and key buff who returned it to the House...
Here today, gone tomorrow is one of the themes that pervades California Split, and just as quickly as today's Fruit Loops may become tomorrow's Oval Oaties or Glazed Grainos, so Bill's job today as a magazine editor may be tomorrow's trip to the pawnshop, and so Charlie's extravagant spending today may be tomorrow's hustle for a meal. In this movie almost totally without plot or character development, the imminence of change, the ubiquity of contingency, predominate, and as with the wheel of fortune Charlie spins in a Reno casino...
...time she was 18, she had been a hairdresser, milliner, pawnshop clerk, librarian, even a cobbler. But having sung on the side all the while, she felt ready to try out for Blanche Coleman's all-girl band. "Good pipes," they told her, "but can you play a bass?" Fortunately for Dankworth and her later career, she could not. Even with Dank-worth's band, she felt after a few years like a "necessary evil" and decided that it was necessary to strike out on her own. What she found waiting for her out there was mostly straight...