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Born in Switzerland, Jean Tinguely was an early rebel, was expelled from school after school and took up art in desperation at the age of 14. Nine years ago, he quit Switzerland in disgust ("They're suffocating in security and drowning in comfort"), settled in a lean-to shack in Paris' scruffy Impasse Ronsin. There, in a litter of old iron, cooky crumbs and whirling clockwork, Tinguely constructs his "abstractions," erratically watched over by his wife Eva. Says her husband: "She paints the kind of things Edgar Allan Poe would have, if he'd been able...
Those who would make a design for living, says Author Powell, must still contend with those who run up a shack of no design and live in it. Despite technological advances, the world will end not with a bang but a Kwimper...
...Foot Pit. Hurrying home to his tiny, rented straw-mat room in an overcrowded shack on the city's outskirts, Kawamura eagerly told his fellow tenants what he had learned. Sure enough, they remembered that there was an old tombstone in the field, so deeply buried that only its top showed above the earth. Nobody knew whose grave it was. It had always been there...
...some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world, Ray meets his oddball twin in Japhy Ryder, a twinkly-eyed Zen Buddhist hobohemian who lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips...
...William Lee Conley Broonzy, the business of crying the blues began when he and his twin sister Lannie were still barefoot kids scuffling in the played-out dirt around their parents' shack near Jackson, Miss. Bill pestered the owner of the general store into giving him a guitar. "Bill could play your name on it," says Lannie. "I swear he could make it talk...