Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago Coliseum, they matched animalistic descriptions of the cops. Burroughs called them "vicious dogs," and asked: "Is there not a municipal ordinance requesting that vicious dogs be muzzled and controlled?" Genet thought a better description was "mad dogs, who for the past 150 years have done the same thing, with even greater brutality, to the blacks." Improving on even this literary eloquence, Southern found the "dog-cop image quite apt, but in my view there is also a salient strain of swine in the character of those who drove the young people out of Lincoln Park. Swine, or perhaps...
...Beatles' isolation and boredom. Ringo is the most content, living a suburban, intensely domestic life in a house full of gadgets, including six TV sets. Paul roams restlessly through the youthful London underground, where artists and the remaining hippies overlap. George Harrison searched desperately for his own thing, seems to have found it briefly in Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will lie for hours curled...
...CUBAN THING, by Jack Gelber (author of The Connection, director of The Kitchen), with Rip Torn. Gelber will direct this one too. A Cuban family amid Castro's revolution...
...starred in football, basketball and especially baseball at Mulberry High School. Several baseball scouts were hot on his trail, but they cooled off after he suffered a severe shoulder separation in a football game. "It nearly murdered me at the time," he says, "but it was the best thing that could have happened. After all, how many baseball players make $70,000 in their rookie season...
...visitor (James Olson) "looking for a little action" finds some in Rachel, but he vanishes before she realizes that she has been had. Even her body thwarts her: a swelling in her stomach turns out to be not a pregnancy but a noncancerous tumor. It is the only benign thing that has ever happened...