Word: vagrantly
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...Idol tantalizes chiefly by concentrating on Parks, whose passing resemblance to Laurence Harvey offers no insurmountable obstacle. Intense, slow-burning and confidently virile, he has a star actor's natural instinct for arousing curiosity about what he will do next. Parks pulls attention to himself like a vagrant, possibly savage tomcat whose animal responses need not be understood to be interesting. And he makes most of moviedom's clean-jawed young swains look about as dangerous as campfire boys...
...that case, Despair is a murder story, although it is not one to be found in the racks of every bus station. On a trip to Prague in 1930, Hermann Karlovich, a Russian émigré in the chocolate-manufacturing business based in Berlin, meets a vagrant whose face is astonishingly like his own. Or so it appears to Hermann; Felix Wohlfahrt, the tramp, does not notice the resemblance. Back in Berlin, Hermann broods. It soon becomes clear that he is a schizophrenic and that his thoughts are murderous. As innocent accomplices to his plot he recruits three people-including...
...core. On the New York-to-Boston train, in The Railway Police, is a woman social worker who wears wigs to hide a hereditary baldness. Seeing a ticketless passenger led away by the railway cops, the social worker abruptly decides to follow his example -to be a vagrant; that is, to exercise "the right to be out of the organized world." Girdle, rings, bank account, wig -everything is abandoned for the park-bench life...
...VAGRANCY LAWS. Are they constitutional? The court's long-awaited answer may come in the case of Eddie J. Hicks, a wandering guitarist who was convicted in Washington, D.C., of being a vagrant "leading an immoral or profligate life." That phrase is so unconstitutionally vague, argues Hicks, that it permits police to lock up anyone who looks suspicious. The court is likely to pay close heed...
...purpose a page from the professor's miniature volume of poems by Leopardi, the professor watches a classic poem burn, then resignedly selects for his own smoke "a minor work." Both men understate their roles in virtuoso style, whether locked in ideological combat or coping with a nubile vagrant (Stefania Sandrelli) who tramps the countryside like a one-girl emporium-stealing clothes, swapping souvenirs, and cheekily symbolizing the instinct for survival that thrives in all political climates...