Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searing process called "conking." He worked briefly as a waiter at Small's Paradise, still one of Harlem's top nightspots. But an honest dollar was not for Malcolm Little. He was caught pimping on the side and fired. He thereupon turned himself into a full-time hustler whose specialties were fixing up white men with Negro whores and Negro men with white whores. He peddled marijuana, became a cocaine addict and, to satisfy his $20-a-day craving, took to burglary. In 1946 he wound up with a ten-year prison sentence in Boston...
Gene Kinasewich, Harvard's most consistent hustler, scored what proved to be the winning goal at 8:27 of the third period when Bill Fryer's pass found him all alone in front of the Yale net. Bruce Warner pulled the Elis to within one goal at 12:57, just after a Harvard penalty expired, as George Semler dug the puck out to him from the corner. Yale threatened only once thereafter...
This book has its faults, but none that couldn't be straightened out by Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The story is to poker what The Hustler was to pool...
Rechy's hero is a stud hustler who roams this world familiarly in Manhattan's Times Square and Greenwich Village, in Los Angeles' Pershing Square, and in the French Quarter in New Orleans (Mardi gras is Queersville, of course, because queens can wear their highest drag). It is a dreary world where the aberrant have made, and live by, their own conventions. Perhaps the dreariest part of it is not that so much of its business is transacted in the men's rooms of subway stations. It is that the homosexuals Rechy writes about...
...near nudity with the mysterious charm of their grins and guitars. Such popularity is the personal creation of Founder, Leader and Guardian Randy Sparks, who at 29 has developed a keen ear for the lowest common denominator of public taste, uses it with the good sense of a born hustler. "What we try for," he says with conviction, "is middle-of-the-road fun music...