Word: powders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POWDER MAN by Joan Williams. 312 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...those recesses of the Old South where life resists change. Her first novel, The Morning and the Evening, was laid on just such fertile literary ground, and it established her as one of the most promising among the new group of Southern novelists (TIME, May 19, 1961). Old Powder Man, her second, keeps the promise...
...story is simple to the point of artlessness. It is scarcely a story at all. The book follows the course of Frank Wynn, the Powder Man of the title, from piney-woods Arkansas to success as a dynamite salesman-a calling not at all improbable in a country where blasting reclaims swampland, opens farm ditches and helps tame the Mississippi in time of flood. Frank dies, having made the discovery that "it had been more fun making his money than having...
Interesting Defect. Pablo's art requires the touch of a miniaturist, the steadiness of a demolition expert. He has both, plus an assorted palette of six watercolor shades and seven sable brushes of various sizes and shapes-shaving-brush thick for blush powder, pencil-thin for under-eyeliner. Eyes are made up as much as possible: double, even triple rows of false eyelashes ("Doesn't everybody own at least three pairs?"), and the rest a subtle blending of watercolor tones: black eyeliner, then white, light brown, dark brown (in the crease of the eyelid), light brown again, ending...
...floor for almost two hours. A woman next door was awakened and on the verge of calling police when the scraping stopped. That afternoon, as Sylvia lay moaning and mumbling incoherently on her pile of rags, Mrs. Baniszewski, Ricky, John B. Jr. and Paula sprinkled a box of soap powder on her, then added hot water. Afterward, John Jr. sprayed her with cold water from a garden hose...