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...Family Line. We know all of his characters through years of exposure: the garrulous old bartender who never forgets a customer's face or drink; a feisty, evil-tempered whore; a sweet, naive Southern girl, who came to the North to find a slightly better life; the malevolent hustler; the rising young black attorney. They are all charming characters, given to relaxed and easy banter that flows rapidly and naturally, but they all perch precariously on a tenuous line between reality and sit-com land...
Meagher, the most dynamic player on the Terrier squad, showed that he is capable of scoring each time he touches the puck. Eruzione, though not as flashy or as smooth a skater as Meagher, is the hustler, always digging and never letting...
Throughout his life, Malcolm was an activist. As he remarked in 1964, anything I get in, I'm in it all the way." In his evolution from hustler to convicted robber to Black Muslim to revolutionary internationalist, he was never content to hypothesize or simply talk about what he wanted; he was concerned with the concrete strategies for action which would enable a goal to become a reality. Constantly evolving, never stagnating. Malcolm continually revised his outlook to accommodate existing conditions. The first of these changes was his conversion to the Black Muslim faith. While in Charleston prison serving...
Etzioni's bustling omnipresence has earned him an array of detractors. Staid social scientists tend to view him as a pushy hustler, and the American Sociological Association's newsletter has received complaints that he is quoted entirely too much in its pages...
...prompts bitter wrangling. Jones grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At 13, he hoped to be a professional singer. Instead, he followed the lead of older ghetto kids and got into drugs; by 17 he was stealing in earnest. Now 25, Jones is a bright street hustler who stutters in frustrated rage at his tantalizing inability to outdistance self-defeat. He managed to kick heroin during his only prison term and has stayed off it since he got out three years ago. But he takes in coke, pot and wine as naturally as most people breathe...