Word: roache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through jails and trials the project members had their closest contact with whites. John Faresse, and his nephew Tony, the two lawyers who run Marshall and Benton Counties; Sheriff J. M. "Flick" Ash of Marshall County, and Roach, his redheaded deputy who carries a hefty cane on Freedom Days, and whose face turns nearly as red as his hair when a freedom worker approaches; Sheriff Brooks Ward and Deputy Oliver Crumpton, the "laws" of Benton County: some of the workers got to know these men quite well...
...talk to cockroaches," said Boyer with emphasis. Resisting every sort of pressure, he continued to ostracize the roach. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, who wrote the film, got so mad at him that-at cutting time-they chopped every Boyer line that they could possibly get rid of. "So he won't talk to cockroaches," said Wilder. "O.K. Then he won't talk to anybody...
...Broadway. Gelber's first novel seemingly starts off to make that same scene. Marijuana smoke curls up from the pages; the characters are mostly Greenwich Village idiots. But though the chief idiot, Manny Fells, has lowered himself by his own bootstraps into the right kind of roach-ridden Manhattan loft studio, he is neither junkie nor jazzman but a 26-year-old adolescent with tired blood. Hunger, and doubtless boredom, drives him to nothing more desperate than a temporary Christmastime job with a schlock detective agency. The agency lends him a car, car and cash attract a girl friend...
...legendary Perry W. Fattig of Atlanta. A shy entomologist, Fattig practically made a second profession of taking the stand when soft-drink bottlers were sued when bugs were found in their beverages. Expert Fattig would explain that eating an insect could be harmless, then he would plop a live roach in his mouth and chew it up. The demonstration was invariably impressive, but most trial lawyers agree with San Francisco's Jake Ehrlich, who looks not for stuntmen but for experts with "a pleasant demeanor, good solid judgment, some learning, and the sense to keep quiet at the right...
Within each bag, imitation of the "daddy" spreads through the ranks like summer fires. Trumpeters try to play like Miles Davis. And hold their horns like Miles. And dress like Miles. Bassists imitate Charlie Mingus or Scott La Faro; drummers, Max Roach or Elvin Jones. Sax players copy Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane, who is presently so much the vogue that the sound of his whole quartet is being echoed by half the jazz groups in the country...