Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimate Sacrifice. If Fonda was difficult, his close friend and fellow Easy Rider was impossible. A compatriot of James Dean, Director Dennis Hopper has become the caricature of the surly, inarticulate "man, like I mean" Method actor. He had once announced to Fonda that "the first movie I make will have to win at Cannes." But his appearances in films belied the boast. The mad stare, the simian stance could have been reproduced, everyone thought, by a dozen actors. Everyone but Peter Fonda. He persuaded Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) to collaborate on the Easy Rider script, and talked American International...
...enjoyed reading your article on Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always...
...shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade after decade to tell it as it is, the mind becomes irreparably deluded, and finally it becomes harder to comprehend one's own compatriot than a man from Mars...
...into the street. Two patrol cars are here now; they are almost hit. After quiet, we walk back to the corner, watching for bottles out of Carmen, I with my hands in the air as if arrested and my friend holding up a two-finger V to his compatriot Pukes. Someone leans out an eighth-floor window: "Fucking Puke." Carmen, I am told, has Jocks in it too. We go back to Carmen and see a Puke's room where the Jocks broke in and threw a jug of his fermenting cider through a picture window. Everything was knocked...
...diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized by her magnetic presence, they applauded and cheered as she blew kisses and tossed them the roses that lined the tier. Then she went backstage to greet her compatriot with "Brava! Brava! Brava!" But now she had created a supercharged atmosphere that was as much of a challenge to Suliotis as the opera itself...