Word: callin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show. As we go to press, the place seems to be Currier House, where the show originated. The production, based on the opera by Peter Townsend of The Who, is about a youth who goes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing his mother's infidelity; eventually he finds his callin as a pinball player extrordinaire. It's all laden with heavy Christ symbolism...
...Callin 'everybody honey...
...Three nights ago you was callin' out for your momma while them fuckers was hittin' our wire...
...itself was a surprise of another sort. Ali, a puffy 238 Ibs. six weeks ago, had forced himself through a crash training program: "Up at five, to bed by ten at night. No lunch, no breakfast, my stomach burnin' with hunger, fightin' temptation, women of all races callin' me on the phone, and the only thing keepin' me from goin' out the window is thinkin' of that short walk to the ring, and all those faces there, lookin' at me and sayin': 'Why it's a miracle! He looks sooo...
...people go. After Friendly's closes, they all migrate down to the Midnight Diner, the purest example of Mafia art in the New York area. A year ago, a bunch of them, including leader Tony, came into Friendly's to try to get us out to fight. "We're callin' youse out," he told me. I told him there was no way I was going to accept this invitation. They finally left and didn't bother us except for throwing small rocks at my friend's car as we drove off. Last winter they made a big score when they...