Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some unspecified wrinkles about working conditions remain to be smoothed out. Flashes of temperamental lightning could still postpone or even wreck the whole proceeding. Nonetheless, both management and the artists have started trying to scrape together a new Met season, and it could get under way either...
...Good Score. The script-which Peckinpah wrote with Walon Green -has the sound and rhythm of a rambling campfire yarn. Pike Bishop (William Holden) is the aging leader of a ragtag bunch of bandits who ride through the Southwest trying to scrape together an honorably illegal living. The money from previous jobs has just about run out, and the bunch is being trailed by a group of murderous bounty hunters. After an unsuccessful stickup in which two of them are killed, the rest light out for Mexico, with the bounty hunters hard on their trail, looking to make what Bishop...
...appreciated for her cultivated prose and sensitivity. Each summer she leaves her husband, an insurance exec, and her children for a stay at Illyria, a 500-acre arts preserve where writers, musicians, painters and sculptors create in secluded studios beneath hemlocks and pines. Tap-tap, tinkle-tinkle, scrape-scrape go the creative artists. Presumably, the hemlocks and pines murmur...
...them in a cool, dark place, often under the eaves, so that they will get moldy. To make sure that the mold develops, some Koreans buy a pure culture and spread it on their loaves. By early spring, a furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others...
...Heavy Metal Kid and other famous folk heroes prefer a small shallow frying pan for boiling so you can scrape it clean. Of Course you need your bag, and a belt to tie your arm. Boil it down. Already the smell of no! is in the air, a low hot smell, the dull excitement and fever of being alone with something wrong man, you know this isn't right, but is that right? Like probing your asshole in the bathrub, or like wanting to vomit, wanting to taste it, or like hurting, an animal slowly. Degrade and debase all that...