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...companies, blacks feel that they bump up against an "invisible ceiling," usually at a salary level of about $15,000 a year. Fairly frequently, a black executive is given a big title and small responsibility. He is put in charge of something like "special markets" (meaning Negro markets). If he is in a management line job and reaches a certain level, he is shifted off the executive escalator into a staff position or limited department with scant chance for further promotion...
Michael, perhaps the most "anxious queer" of them all, uses the game as a device to make all the others share in the self-hatred he feels at being a homosexual. While he hopes that "not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story." he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse.") He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like himself. In the game...
...cushion vehicle, the Spectra I, looks something like a funland bump car with a big fan on the back. It is powered by two engines-"one for up," in the words of MHV's promotional brochure, "and one for over." The first inflates Spectra's black vinyl skirts and forces air to seep out from under them, providing a cushion that suspends the craft above the surface; the second turns a propeller that thrusts the vehicle forward. Only 10 ft. long and 6 ft. wide, Spectra I weighs 450 Ibs. and costs between...
...stiff collar behind it. Country music was played by white people, and blues was played by black people. And when it interchanged, it became something else, which is what Levon's father sings like. He sings blues with a twang, with that different accent, with a different bump on a different place. The new Rolling Stones album sounds like a bunch of blues-oriented cowboys, man, no doubt about...
...been that way ever since he dropped out of the University of Colorado in 1956 and went on a solitary expedition of discovery. It took him to art school in Paris, carried him through the rest of the Continent, and deposited him with a bump back in the States 13 months later. "It was a black period for me," he recalls. "I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, except get out of California. I'd grown up there, but I always had this image in my head of living in New York...