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...kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago's Skid Row. On Jan. 24, 1955, Ira stayed up all night drinking muscatel with four other Indians in a desert shack on the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation near Phoenix, Ariz. Next morning he was found not far from the shack, dead. He had strangled on his own vomit...
Sylva slowly, painfully struggles away from the animal world. She escapes to the forest, only to discover that it rejects her new body. She escapes again to shack up with a feeble-minded woodcutter and returns to embarrass the prissy Richwick with her uninhibited advances (in a satirical switch, Vercors has Richwick study Freud in order to give Sylva some inhibitions). But the major gap that separates human from animal mentality is man's conscious awareness of his own existence. Eventually, Sylva makes the leap, and from the frightening moment when she discovers herself as an individual entity separate...
...whom Papa Derain would not let into the house. Then one day an older painter by the name of Henri Matisse saw some of André's work, spoke so glowingly of his talents and prospects that Derain's father finally relented. Maurice and Andre rented a shack on an island in the Seine, and their careers finally began...
...owner, and pursuing a bandit named Ramerrez. In Act I, Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson, a stranger in the Polka, invites him up to her place on the mountain only to learn in Act II that he is Ramerrez. When Johnson-Ramerrez is collared in her shack, Minnie proposes a game of poker with the sheriff-with Johnson's life and her own body as the stakes. Minnie takes that game by slipping some cards from her stocking, saves Johnson a second time by flourishing a pistol at the molasses-witted miners, marches off with Dick, singing...
...taught pathology at Yale, they lived in a series of rented houses in Bethany, Conn. The Buntings skied, hiked, played tennis, spent long nights banding chimney swifts in a New Haven heating plant. For $200 they managed to buy 50 acres on a Vermont mountaintop. built a tar-paper shack retreat for $26. In 1940 the first of their four children (a daughter, three sons) was born...