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...Connection is all about drug addicts, and it has a sporadic, hypodermic sort of distinction. The junkies sit in a pad impatiently waiting, but for nothing so vague as Godot: they wait for their "connection" and the heroin he will bring. They numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky...
...Pad. Bunker's action came none too soon. The Titan, on which the U.S. has spent some $1.2 billion to date, is in trouble. After four preliminary successful shoots (none beyond the first stage), the missile designed to be more sophisticated than Convair's Atlas has not been able to get off the pad for seven months...
...Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal that would be read...
...Early morning in the universe," says Narrator Kerouac at the outset, by way of scene setting. On the screen, a beautiful but weary woman opens the shutters of her pad. (She is played by Delphine Youngerman, who calls herself Beltiane.) Outside is Manhattan's Bowery; inside are her little boy and, hung on a chair, her absent husband's "tortured socks...
...Sunset Strip) Zimbalist Jr. (Adeste Fideles), and cowpokes. notably Clint (Cheyenne) Walker (Silver Bells) and Ty (Bronco) Hardin ("It came upon ah mid-naht cleah"). Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes recites, to a cool jazz beat, a ditty called Yulesville: "'Twas the night before Christmas/ And all through the pad/ Not a hipcat was swingin'/ And that's nowhere...