Word: vagrants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap a photograph--what the young man describes as a "me picture"--while urinating on the human pile of garbage he has just created...
...vagrant named Peter invited Marshall to live with him and several other homeless people in an abandoned residential house, located a few blocks from Harvard Square. Most of Marshall's time each day was spent "walking and spacing out," as well as looking for his next meal...
Although conditions were less harsh in France than in some other parts of Europe, the cold snap there caused a death toll of at least 31. One potential French victim of the cold was saved in the northern city of Amiens when a vagrant discovered a newborn girl abandoned at the city dump. He called for help, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Doctors rated her chances of survival excellent and named her Violette because of her purplish complexion when she was first brought...
...give it a new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man. He is as morbid as Stephen King, but unlike his American counterpart, this 33-year-old writer from Liverpool is witty, unpredictable and concise. In these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built to entice Satan up from hell; hands rebel against the minds that move them; the dead and the living couple in a Texas motel. Each story involves an uncanny...
Like many performers-to-be, Danny deflected attacks on his shortcomings (he was always small for his age) with wit and bravado: "Ever since I was born, I've thought of myself as a romantic lead." But not, initially, as an actor. There was the vagrant lead part in a high school play about St. Francis of Assisi. "I was in a brown robe," he remembers. "No shoes, no socks. The curtain wasn't all the way down, and just before we were about to begin, I heard my mother say, 'I think those are his feet.' " Still...