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Next the young fan played The Darkside, a track built around Donald Byrd's Steppin' into Tomorrow. It starts with a grim, pulsing bass, followed by hard lyrics about urban life: "Come take a trip through the eye of a black man/ Looking out at life like he really doesn't give a damn...
...last week Claire Ferguson, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association, said that the case "may be a rolling stone that rolls right over her." While Ferguson said that evidence of Harding's involvement had not emerged, she said her chances of being at the Games were "looking pretty grim." Simply having had a suspect in her employ may mean Harding's ouster...
...comes as a surprise that Buchwald, a man of impressively reliable, virtually industrial-strength merriment, was formed by such a grim beginning. Buchwald's mother was mentally ill and, shortly after he was born, departed to spend the rest of her life in mental institutions. Buchwald has no memory of her. His father, a draper at a time when few could afford drapes , was forced to place his four children in foster homes. One of the first was a boardinghouse for sick children, run by Seventh-Day Adventists, where Arthur stayed until he was five. His father visited on Sundays...
...stood there, talking in the red meat section of the store (yes, masculine) about recent sports events, his cheerful face suddenly turned grim...
I.R.A. Sends a Grim Message...