Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes cook Brian meals right up here in the room, when he's too tired to go out at night. Then we sit down on the bed and watch television for the rest of the night, or I will go down to the White Tower and bring back a few hamburgers. He's a very healthy fellow and eats a lot," said Quirm...
Occasionally Nabokov plays games, as in the acrostic in "The Vane Sisters," but basically he eludes explication and literary criticism. He is a magician who gets us to watch the rabbit, not the false bottom of his hat. His style illuminates, it does not blind. In his autobiography, Speak, Memory, part of which is included in the present volume, he writes...
...watch in whatever Brown offense there is are sophomore quarter-back Brian Marini, and his favorite receiver Greg Kontos. The rushing work-horse is senior Tom Lemire, who has amassed 578 yards for a 4.2 yards per carry average...
...scatter it against the weathered frame buildings. Along Brown Street, the main drag, ragged white farmers and mute Negroes sprawl on benches propped against the buildings in the shade of awnings. There is not much for them to do except read the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle or dip snuff or watch the tractors or pray for rain. There is not even a movie house in Graceville anymore, which seems like a reasonable indicator of the imminence of death...
...hoped that the crowds which gathered to watch the filming of The Boston Strangler don't bother to go down and see the finished product. They could get just about the same thing--leering headlines and all--by buying a copy of the National Enquirer at their neighborhood newstand...