Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks decorative, and Cassidy is an inexhaustibly beguiling entertainer, but the scenes they have to play are sentimental postcards in need of falling snow. The trouble is that the show won't last until winter...
...become more and more of a loner. Even after all my years in public life, I don't really feel I understand the press. Sometimes I think if I make myself too available, you fellows will think I'm trying to do a snow job. This surprises you, doesn't it? Well, Humphrey isn't quite the cocky guy everybody thinks. From now on I'm going to hold press conferences and do all sorts of things. What have I got to lose...
...writes slowly and meticulously. He began perhaps his best-known work, Snow Country, in 1934 and did not consider it completed until 1947. A bittersweet, erotic story of the doomed affair of a deteriorating geisha and a Tokyo dilettante, the novel shows Kawabata at his best, sensually describing the darker aspects of life, suffering, love and death. Both Snow Country and the later, highly praised Thousand Cranes have been published in the U.S. and Europe. But many of his score of novels are barely known abroad...
...Habit of His. For the Western reader, Snow Country provides a key to the lesser-known regions of Japanese life. Particularly evocative are Kawabata's descriptions of the look of Japan. "The solid, integral shape of the mountain, taking up the whole of the evening landscape there at the end of the plain, was set off in a deep purple against the pale light of the sky." His eye for physical description is sharp. "Her skin, suggesting the newness of a freshly peeled onion or perhaps a lily bulb, was flushed faintly, even to the throat...
...even after they have been located. Many simply do not think that the suspected defect is worth the trouble. Regional conditions can make a difference: in 1966, G.M. sent out recall notices on 1,800,000 Chevelles and Chevrolets in order to install a splash shield designed to keep snow and slush from getting into the transmission housing; multitudes of Southerners, who do not worry about snow and slush, ignored the campaign. Similarly, unless the defect seems really serious, taxis and police cars are rarely turned in-if only because it is extremely inconvenient to have them out of service...