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...year, when New York Yankees Pitcher Waite ("Schoolboy") Hoyt died grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...film is narrated by a cleaner (Shirley Henderson), who talks obsessively of the dirt of life, the things that cannot be changed or removed but that just build up. This is as much a personal commentary as it is a global one; Potter wonders how to move forward as an individual when so much death and bad blood has accumulated...
Every white South African city and town, even the smallest dorp (village), has its Soweto, its KwaThema, its satellite township where the blacks live. It is where the paved road ends and the dirt begins. Asphalt highways cut through Soweto, but the side streets disappear quickly into dust or mud. In the shantytowns, children and old women gather at water points to fill plastic bottles and cans, which they balance atop their heads with hip-swaying confidence as they walk home along potholed paths. The smaller the township, the fewer the amenities. Some communities have only a few electric lights...
...Farkes had played through pain for two full seasons, and he couldn’t say no to the Cape. So standing deep in the infield grass, he’d pray the guy from Florida State or Texas digging into the dirt of that batter’s box didn’t hit a ball to his backhand, because the long throw from the hole just hurt too much...
Returning closer to home, “Go It Alone” channels the blues tradition of American music with a head-bobbing beat and unflappable composure. A groove this good could only have come straight from the source: I can picture Beck wandering the back alleys and dirt-caked hamlets of the American South armed only with a good ear and a tape recorder, a latter-day Alan Lomax...