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...Hurd, who actually is a busdriver, plays Ruby. She gives a stunning performance as an aging woman determined not to be confined to her husband's chairside, yet ill at case elsewhere. Fixing herself a huge Ice Cream sundae and eating it as she watches the passersby from her porch, quietly slipping out by the back way after she has dressed up to go out and enjoy life, gingerly sipping a seven-and-seven in the nightclub, she is endearing without being bathetic, absurd without being ridiculous. When Earl Tibbits prances around the school bus calling "Pussycat! Oh pussycat...
...support himself while he wrote at night. He was so hard up that he sometimes brought home the food samples that had been sent to customs for analysis. He eventually won recognition and published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and essays. His best-known novel The Porch (1937) and his 1955 autobiography Over the Bridge were widely praised...
...motioned for me to go around to the left side of the house. She let me in a rear door and ushered me into the back porch through a swamp of unused Hartke posters, through the kitchen parlor, dining room, and finally into the living room which was the main headquarters for the operation...
...first glance, two oddities immediately struck me. One was the nature of the "office" itself. It was an old-wood-frame-three-story-white- family dwelling with a huge front porch. The other was the fact that there were no tracks in the snow in the direction of the front door...
...experience has left Talese a little jumpy, which probably accounts for the way he stares at every car that passes his front porch. As for Bill Bonanno, says Talese, who recently visited him at the federal prison in San Pedro, Calif., "he never looked better. He has slimmed down, has plenty of time for reading, and appeared as relaxed as he probably has ever been...