Word: trampe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation," Herman Melville said of this country of immigrants, "so much as a world." That judgment is ringingly appropriate to an art industry that since its inception has dominated the world market and consciousness. A wistful tramp wreaks havoc in a Manhattan pawnshop, and Asians fall in love with Charlie Chaplin. Judy Garland sings about a rainbow, and Europeans know it is only a dream away from Kansas. A California child opens the eyes of his extraterrestrial friend to a toy store's worth of American brand names, and E.T. strikes a responsive chord on every continent. For most...
...there existed another way of life, a land of wide open spaces and fantastic cities that were a cross between Babylon and Mars. It was especially wonderful to know there was a country where people were free, rich and dancing on the roofs of skyscrapers, and where even a tramp could become President...
...felt only pride. After all, it was Granny Newman who had encouraged Velez to bare her all for the magazine's talent scouts when they showed up in Miami two years ago. "If you showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies," as Velez says, meaning the $100,000 and Toyota MR2 she will get this week for winning the nod as 1985 Playmate of the Year. "I obviously owe a lot to my grandmother," says the dutifully...
...other stories in the collection, two are standard imponderables, vaguely suggesting those irritating fictional non sequiturs of Donald Barthelme that prove without effort that the world is a strange place. The last short piece is called The Leather Man, after a strange tramp who wandered southern New England in the 19th century, insulated from the world by an outer leather armor he had devised. It is an awkward tale that works only intellectually, as an argument the author is having with himself. Is it possible that a life can be understood only when one has deliberately estranged oneself from...
Such beach battles are by no means unusual. From sea to shining sea, landlocked citizens are asserting what in many states is their traditional right of access to the beaches, even if they have to tramp across private property to get there. At the same time, property owners, especially wealthy residents of exclusive beachfront communities, are becoming increasingly militant about the invasion of beachgoers. In Maine's high-priced coastal enclaves, property owners, many of them from out of state, have built fences, thrown rocks, towed cars and on at least one occasion brandished a shotgun to keep clammers...