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...what you can learn," he said, "about this shooting in the--Tavern on Columbia Road. Apparently a kid from Roslindale was murdered when some guy came in off the street and opened fire in the bar last night. It sounds like a freak shooting. Interview the family. Do you know Harry? Harry'll take pictures. He's waiting for you. Here are the clips...
...profound disillusion based partly on the state of the world as Baldwin sees it and partly on the unchangeable fact that Baldwin is now nearly 48 years old. "What in the world was I now," he laments, "but an aging, lonely, sexually dubious, politically outrageous, unspeakable erratic freak...
...years since Salvador Dali separated from the surrealist movement, he has leaped from one extravagant triviality to the next, combining the roles of circus freak, spangled elephant and Barnum himself. The performance is tinted with sadness. Dali is undoubtedly the last of the great dandies, but nobody accepts his own belief that he is the last of the great artists, heir to Vermeer and Velásquez. The baroque costume jewelry, the monarchist-Catholic oratory, the worn stock of crutches and soft watches-all have dust on them. Even the trembling antennas of that fabled mustache have apparently ceased...
Such efficiency soon made V. the premier mathematician in the County of L He occupied a prestigious university chair. Research foundations competed to give him grants. He was appointed consultant to the National Bureau of Statistical Analysis. What more could a figure-freak want...
Most of the people that tried out for the Freak varsity were somewhat more realistic about their capabilities at least. A few of the boys had played college ball at Princeton or someplace else where they don't consider football too important. But most of them were hackers, you know. Guys out for a little fun, for charity. It was a casual thing. The Freaks versus The Fuzz in a tackle football game in front of 50,000 people at a $5 top. All of the proceeds go to Project Turnabout, a halfway-house for drug addicts. Beautiful...