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...Black, and a street hustler not quite as shrewd as he thinks he is, Billy Ray is dressed in rags and crouched on a rolling platform. He is pretending to be a blind and legless Viet Nam veteran, begging and trying to make it with a foxy passer-by ("Ain't you never heard of Porgy and Bess...
...ring of lowlife truth. Says a sincere Ernie after a night of backseat love and a bottle of Rock 'n' Rye: "I'm sure trying to figure out a way to tell you what I want to without hurting your feelings by talking dirty, but it ain't easy...
...This ain't Viet Nam, and it sure as hell better not end the way Viet Nam ended. People bring Viet Nam up all the time because they know Viet Nam is unpopular. It plays on a fear and a phobia that are built into the American consciousness...
Porgy's strengths are obvious. The creation of one of America's most brilliant native musical talents, the opera boasts a number of songs that have become standards: Summertime; I Got Plenty o' Nuttin '; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain 't Necessarily So. More subtle, but no less impressive, are the choruses, which give voice to the residents of Catfish Row: their lamentation in Gone, Gone, Gone, their exuberance in Ain't Got No Shame, their terror in Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens. Proudly, Gershwin considered his work "the greatest music...
...Anderson, calls it something else. "Managing is always saying 'I think,' never saying 'I know,' " says the Detroit manager, sunning in a grandstand in Lakeland, Fla., where the Los Angeles Dodgers are visiting. Then he delivers his wonderful annual capsule analysis of the Tigers. "I ain't kidding now. This is an outstanding baseball team that I'll match against anybody in baseball-front line. They'll take their hacks at you. But then, there's a problem. You got to get the other side out. If 'I think...