Word: hustler
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...throwing her a life preserver -- and by the way she surges ahead at odd moments during her races by taking several consecutive strokes without breathing, then hits the finish line after six or eight strokes in no-breath hyperdrive. "I don't really have a breathing pattern," this pool hustler apologizes, sandbagging with the smallest of grins...
Always at the street corner, always at our side, often at our mercy. The wild- eyed man blocks the subway-car aisle, slinging curses and entreaties. The gray madonna and her smudges of children hover outside the church, despair incarnate. The glib hustler in designer jeans glides down the movie line. The kids with the grimy windshield rags orbit the intersection. The old man with no eyes sits on the steam grates in winter in a wet cloud of pain. The obsequious panhandler waits outside the automated-teller machines, where wallets are full and walls are transparent. Somehow, always never...
...dredge an emergency channel in the shrinking river to & unclog the bizarre traffic jam. At Memphis low water levels broke all the records that had been put down on the books going back to 1872. But where somebody is losing a buck, there is always an American hustler trying to make one. The Illinois Central Railroad has put on additional cars to carry grain that can't go by water. Where the barges wait and wallow, small "midstreamers" dart here and there, peddling groceries and supplies to the stalled rivermen...
...secretary who is given it to read and, eventually, in her boss, who for a while joins her quixotic crusade. He starts out trying to seduce her on a bet and ends up considering a move that will surely destroy his career. Like many a cheap-jack hustler, he momentarily finds religion. But his faith in the book, and the woman who made him believe in it, seems to be still more illusions to be stripped away...
...noisome case of Jerry Falwell v. Hustler, the Supreme Court rules that even offensive parody is protected by the Constitution...