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...sleeved shirt, the muscles of his forearms seem to move in rhythm. His face is marked in performance by both intense concentration and the graces and passions of the melody. He is always a showman who does everything with panache-watch him put on one of his rakish fedoras, brim snapped up and cunningly creased down wide in front, the whole hat and the movement of his hand over his head a study in easy, unashamed flamboyance...
...scamper from house to house--16 identical government prefabs staring blankly across the blue through 16 identical broken picture windows. The wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat disappear while heads and torsos are still visible. From across the river you are left with the impression of groups of Indians skateboarding along...
Because of high prices and energy-conservation measures, world oil demand has been running so far behind recent production that storage tanks in Europe and Japan are filled to the brim. But instead of cutting the prices that they quadrupled last year, oil exporting nations are reducing production in order to keep the prices up. In the past two months, Kuwait has cut production 20%, and Venezuela has trimmed significantly too. At a meeting next week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to approve a coordinated production drop of at least 10% by all twelve members. Even Saudi...
...virtually a monologue, spoken like a Runyonesque incantation by Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
DESPITE THE MYRIAD accounts of frustration or failure, Crouse's pages also brim with success stories. His biographical resumes of the "heavies" are executed with the clipped regularity of the photo machines that for a quarter will dispose of your physiognomy in train stations. And of course, there are the classic stories...