Word: vagabonde
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Suppose I should forget, grow thoughtless--What if the little words came back, Running in upon me, running back Like little children home from school? Suppose I spoke--oh, I don't know--Some vagabond phrase out of the summer! What if I said 'I love you'? Something as simple...
...Berry. The charming troublemaker begins his career on the New England coast with the purchase of an aging trained bear called State O' Maine and a 1937 Indian motorcycle with sidecar. The seller is a vagabond named Freud, who after World War II lures Win into the Viennese hotel deal. The hapless entrepreneur is blinded by a radical's bomb and winds up at the third Hotel New Hampshire, in Maine, bought by his surviving children. Only the children do not have the heart to tell him that the resort has been turned into a rape crisis center...
...feast begins in late April or May, when the caterpillars first emerge from their eggs. As they finish off one tree, they swing easily to another on silken threads they secrete. Their vagabond life accounts for the name gypsy. Millions can infest a small wooded patch. As they crunch, dropping excrement and half-eaten leaves, they sound like steady rain. Some homeowners complain that the noise actually keeps them awake. The caterpillars crawl up walls, spread over driveways, drop into plates and glasses at backyard barbecues. Last month Massachusetts officials got a call from a badly flustered woman. So many...
...play's potential freshness are the performances of two young lovers, Esperanza (Cynthia McVay) and Moncho (Stephen Harrison), who manage to escape the symbols. McVay combines a casual beauty with an easy naturalness perfectly suited to her role as an unbridled woman caught up in the revolution. The vagabond spirit of Harrison's Moncho provides her worthy accompaniment. Whether strumming a love song or angrily debating with his leader Rodrigo, Moncho captures the excitement the play cries...
...provocative landscape and the physical existences of the characters. The rich, hot colors of Brazil--lush greens, electric blue seas, lurid sunsets--seem charged with surreal power; even the pastels seem energized, and the slums are unfailingly photogenic in their squalor. The enchanting promiscuity of the landscape, the vagabond itinerancy, and the no-sweat amorality of the characters keep the narrative amiably in motion, unburdened by overt lecturing or tedious symbols. The native Cico, who might have been pressed into the boring documentary role of "yokel-from-the-primitive-hinterlands-who-learns-the-modern-world-fast-and-succeeds...