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...Return of the Herd (see detail, page 58), one hears it first of all. Not only the lowing of cattle in the last watery rays of an autumn afternoon, but also the squish of mud beneath their hoofs and the crows' jeering overhead. The cattle are coming down from their mountain pastures. Most will be slaughtered, but a lucky few may winter with their masters in out of the wind. Beyond, and below, the last of the grapes are being gathered. Dionysus, god of wine, once stole the cattle of the sun. A castle gleams like teeth...
...other rubbish - treasures of pop art, and readily come by because a high proportion of bay debris washes up there. The artists are amateurs, art students or real pros. Singly or in expeditions, they come clad in jeans and bikinis and armed with tools, nails and beer, to squish out across the oozing, odorous, umber mud and whack away at the driftwood. They use only what they find, in deference to the DUMP NO RUBBISH sign and its $1,000 fine...
That would be enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...
...dust bowl. "It was a joy just to lie in bed listening [to it]," wrote Frank Grimes, the aged editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News. "If you had been just a little younger, you'd have climbed out of bed and rushed into the yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged an impromptu parade, and a pretty girl named Kay Kissinger was elected "Miss Drought Breaker...
Prettiest run of the afternoon was executed by a Crimson waterboy who, while sprinting toward the sidelines after a time-out, crossed the last wide stripe on his managerial afterdeck, on a brilliant five-yard squish...