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...blessing and the mystery of Wise Blood is that it deftly avoids any established category. It is weird. Huston paces his film like a front porch tale-teller sliding through the story with a quiet drawl but leaps out of his rocker to flare with hellfire often enough to keep us nervous, wide-eyed and fascinated...
...still clearly remember standing on the porch of my hotel room five years ago, seeing colorful shanty-towns spilling over the mountainsides a few hundred yards away from the luxury apartment buildings lining the seashore. Orphans slept and begged on the undulating, black-and-white mosaic sidewalks. Since then, though, the government has erected billboards advertising soft-drinks to hide the slums and has kept the kids off the pavement...
...course, is the great deflowerer of youth, and Mowat begins his story on a familiar note of innocence: "On the second day of September, 1939, I was painting the porch of our clapboard house in the rural Ontario town of Richmond Hill when my father pulled into the driveway at the helm of his red convertible . . . 'Farley, my lad, there's bloody big news...
...fact, some of our Cube graduates have become monuments in American society. Abe Lincoln, pictured to the right, never wrote for the Cube; but if he had his statue might not have been hidden on the porch of a building...
...There is no question that the fire was deliberately set," Lt. John R. Ambrogne, a detective from the state fire marshal's office who is investigating the incident, said yesterday. "There was some type of ignition device underneath the front porch," he said...