Word: ain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent is that he does not know how to field a bunt. In the eighth inning, he picked up a trickier-and threw the ball into left field. Then, he picked up another-and threw it into right field. Final score: Baltimore 7, New York 4. Said Berra: "It ain't time to worry yet. I mean, it isn't time to worry...
...Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...both in and out of jazz since the salad days of Goodman, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson. But here they are, sounding much the same 25 years later. Goodman fans will treasure new versions of Runnin' Wild, Somebody Loves Me, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. But something is missing-a sense of discovery. Perhaps the trouble is that the pieces sound light and facile, like the right thing said once too often...
...minutes later, he came back. "King, we ain't had no trouble before you come here, and we don't want none now," he said. "You go back and sit with the other niggers. Do you hear...
...There ain't no place around this holy town where a fella can get all them devils out of his throat," the expatriate folk singer complained-and he was right: for all its glories, Rome had no nightclub for folk singers. Such a cultural omission might have been easily endurable, but when an American Negro painter named Harold Bradley opened his II Folk Studio two years ago, Rome greeted it like springtime. Since then, the Studio has become a genuine academy of folkloric song and is fast becoming the most popular club in the city. Last week, noting...