Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last weekend in March. Fleming then met the Ill Wind, who became his most regular performers, and many other local groups with whom to stock his shows. He's gotten local groups (The Cloud, Quill, The Beacon St. Union, the Ill Wind), two Harvard groups (the Bead Game and Listening), and even visiting national recording groups (Clear Light and the Buddy Guy Blues Band) to play for periods of half an hour or longer --all for free...
...those to whom soul is anything but a parlor game, one thing is certain: the closer a Negro gets to a "white" sound nowadays, the less soulful he is considered to be, and the more he is regarded as having betrayed his heritage. Dionne Warwick singing Alfie? Impure! Diana Ross and the Supremes recording an album of Rodgers and Hart songs? Unacceptable! Yet many "deviations" may be solid professionalism, a matter of adapting to changing audiences. As Lou Rawls says, "Show business is so vast?why should I limit myself to any one aspect if I have the capabilities...
...door was a country club; in between was a fence, and little Lee turned a tidy profit on that happy coincidence-collecting golf balls that strayed over the fence, selling them back to club members. "I cleared maybe $10 a day." Combining pleasure with business, he took up the game himself- playing with a discarded, wooden-shafted No. 5 iron that he discovered one day and sawed down to size...
Triple Ones. The main character-in fact the only major character-is a rootless, helpless, 56-year-old accountant named J. Henry Waugh. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. Eight imaginary teams of the Universal Baseball Association battle for the pennant; individual players spring to life as three dice and a collection of elaborately detailed charts decide their fate. They reach glory, enjoy fame, grow old, lose their skills, retire to sell insurance and finally die as the dice decree. Waugh records the statistics...
...schedule. He throws his cosmos into chaos. In the real world, he gets fired by his employer. As he drinks his troubles away, the people of the association comfort him. In the end, the players celebrate the death of Damon Rutherford with a passion-play re-enactment of the game. The cosmos no longer has any direction; the players are on their own. And there is the doomed Damon Rutherford, holding the baseball aloft, "hard and white and . . . beautiful." He says, "It's not a trial. It's not even a lesson. It's just what...