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...Spartan do-without-it armor is candy. He has always kept sourballs or similar hard candies on his dining table, has also allowed himself the smallest of indulgences in the smallest of ways: he cuts a stick of gum into three or four smidgens, chews one minuscule fragment at a time...
thief crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar
When he first comes on stage, he is disappointing; without makeup and costumes, he looks like Arthur Murray. But he gives each fragment a life of its own--which is one reason they seem so wrong together. As he changes from Hamlet to Polonius, from Hotspur to Richard II to Lear, his voice and his very face change with the part...
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...investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many cases by rod-packing remnants of the late Al Capone's mob. Items offered in evidence at last week's hearings...