Word: shepherd
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...stepping delicately towards us. She has not a care in the world; she wears her clothes with elegant nonchalance. Obviously, this woman, smiling irrepressibly, knows the right jeans, the right shirt. What she does not know, or does not care to know, is that she is strangling the German shepherd puppy leashed beside her. The dog would be howling if it had the freedom to breathe. Yet the woman looks handsome, respectable, prosperous; she seems to be without worries or obligations. Her portion of the page is in order and under control...
Appearing for the screening of his latest film. "The Phantom of the Open Hearth" at television station WGBH in Boston, Shepherd discussed "Phantom." which he wrote, co-directed, and narrated...
...Jean Shepherd is fiftyish. He has a middle-age bulge and styled hair. But oddly enough he does not speak with the Midwestern twang that characterizes his stories, films, and radio shows...
...Phantom," told in flashback, depicts life in what Shepherd calls an archetypal Midwestern town during the 1940's. "It is the story of a family, each character impinging on each other, intertwining to create a story line," Shepherd said...
...Shepherd termed "Phantom" an "anti-nostalgia" film that tries to show "if you think it's bad now, it was worse then...