Word: tramps
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...Walk Like a Man. The bongo riffs that began "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" give way to a fusillade of snare-drum aggression: a declaration of the war between the sexes. On his third try, Gaudio found a narrative use for the tramp-tramp-tramp beat of the first two songs: I'm gonna march right out of your heart. Valli's falsetto croons a pretty, otherworldly air while the other Seasons bark out, "Walk! Walk! Walk! Walk!" In three series of this long march (played at the beginning, middle and end, and expending more than half...
...novel from burly young Author Hemingway. His short work (In Ou Time, 1925) bit deeply into life. He said things naturally, calmly tersely, accurately. He wrote only; about things he had experienced mostly outdoors, as a doctor's son in northern Michigan and as a self-possessed young tramp in Europe. Philosophically his implication was: "Life's great. Don't let it rattle...
...traditional hierarchies and try to work with chiefs wherever they can. In nearby Nusa Roviana, once the coral-walled fort of notorious head-hunter Ingava, Curragh and skipper Saro have come to see the chief, John Boi. As light rain falls through a canopy of coconut palms, the police tramp a muddy path. Earlier in the day, 4 km across the lagoon, Dunde village was swept by a rumor that Chief Boi had banned a local candidate in tomorrow's provincial election from campaigning in Nusa Roviana. Dunde's chief, Eki Lee Daga, informs Curragh that men armed with sticks...
Jeff Immelt isn't your garden-variety environmental apostle. A math whiz who played football at Dartmouth, he's not apt to tramp about the wilderness or have Zen moments atop majestic mountain peaks. Immelt bestrides the summit of General Electric--a $152 billion conglomerate supplying everything from home appliances to jet engines to entertainment, via NBC Universal. When the GE CEO isn't globetrotting in his role as chief salesman, he unwinds with an activity that Earth Day types typically abhor: golf. "What gets me pumped is hitting a six-iron 160 yards on top of a hill...
Mazursky varies Renoir's ending, refusing to permit his tramp to rediscover the freedom of the open road; the director seems uncertain about who finally benefits most from this strange encounter. Indeed, the old film that Down and Out most consistently evokes is Mazursky's own Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, also a nervously ambiguous but hilariously etched caricature of the bourgeois at self-improving play. In his desire to back away pleasantly from some of his tale's more critical implications, he relies too much on reaction shots of Matisse for easy, innocent laughs. Well, Disney did produce the film...