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...flour, can border on the obscene. "You aren't supposed to like your hash name," says Martin ("Camel") Luzon, so dubbed for his long legs and loping gait. "Usually it's some sort of caricature, or comes from something that happened on a run." He cites the example of "Skidmark," an unfortunate hasher caught with his pants down on the side of the trail. Franks, for the record, is "Baby Puke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Beer Doesn't Run Out | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-comeback trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 20, 1962 | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-comeback trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Paul Newman and Ed Begley are excellent, and Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-come-back trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 6, 1962 | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

According to Columnist Graham's commercialized confessions, Fitzgerald after his famous Crack-Up was a brilliant, cynical, romantic wreck, and his life a brief, inglorious skidmark to the edge of eternity. According to this picture, he was a great, misunderstood man who was driven to drink by outrageous fortune, but just before his death he experienced a transfiguration in which the heroic drunk and the dissolving genius were transformed and redeemed in a last great love. The notion is so silly that not even the moviemakers could convince themselves it was true. Scarcely a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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