Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That cooled the crisis, but not Morris, who seized the opportunity to bring his painting to the attention of a wider audience. "I'm sick of what passes for art," he explains. "I'm for beat, beat like a drum. I'm for action. There isn't anybody moving in painting. Like they're all shot. I'm starting a new school-action expressionism. The action signifies the beat behind...
...urge to wheel and deal as a producer. Now Steve is in the Orient doing just that, making TV packages and movie shorts. ("He's a very rich man in yen," Shirley insists to doubting friends. "When he gets rolling, his business will make my operations look sick.") When Shirley made Around the World, she got to Japan herself; when she took time out to have a baby, she named her Stephanie Sachiko, to demonstrate that she shared Steve's love for the Orient. The baby slowed her down not a bit. She made Hot Spell, a good...
Back home, the kid suddenly remembered the box trap he and his dad had set in the woods at Deep Springs. What if a rabbit got caught in it? Nobody would let him out and he would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip...
...Sick? The Douglas humor more often than not is of the "sick" variety-or, as a colleague put it, "his jokes need Blue Cross." One chapter is called "India, or Put the Cobra Back in the Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...
...most serious question: had there been an off-to-Buffalo shuffle with A.G.V.A. sick and relief funds? Member contributions are recorded only by number, not by name, so that only Bright and his staff can decipher who deserves what. In addition, a separate corporation called the A.G.V.A. Foundation, headed by busy Jackie Bright, last year bought 62 acres of land in the Catskills, plus assorted buildings, announced that this was the new retreat for retired A.G.V.A. members. So far no A.G.V.A. member has retired there. Asked one critic: "What kind of a home is it up there in the hills...