Word: mason
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Here I was the first black person to live in my immediate neighborhood. I came home one day and a brick mason, who was black, was redoing the walk. And I said hello. And he said, "Can I help you?" with a bit of hostility in his voice. And I said, "You are helping me. You're fixing my walk." And he looked dumbfounded and said, "Is this your house?" And I said, "Yeah." And he said, "Do the white people know that you bought this house?" I said, "Of course!" And he said, "Of course. I bet they know...
...increasingly tempted by one- person shows. Simply staged and lit, they are cheaper both to launch and to keep running, and every season brings one. Broadway last week had three: Tracey Ullman impersonating '50s stage mother Florence Aadland in a tour de force that has just closed; Jackie Mason opining about almost everything; and Julie Harris portraying writer Isak Dinesen. Off-Broadway, Eileen Atkins appears as Virginia Woolf. Artistically, these shows recall the theater's primal origins in storytelling. At best they offer unexcelled emotional intimacy between actor and audience. At worst they lack dramatic movement and reveal character...
...billion spent annually on health care in the U.S., sound apologetic about not attacking the problem full force. "One can say it's not enough or it's not fast enough, but no one is disagreeing with the direction we're heading," says Dr. James Mason, the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services who headed the task force...
...ambulance took four students to Scranton's Community Medical Center. Kelly A.E. Mason '92 and Victor Ortiz-de-Montellano '93 were treated for bruised shoulders. Along with the other two students, they were released without any major treatment that...
...tune wound up on an album by Ungar's group, Fiddle Fever (which also includes his fiance Molly Mason on guitar), and it was this version that caught the attention of Civil War director Ken Burns. Although Ungar was paid only $4,500 for the use of the song, and should see roughly an additional $25,000 from writer's royalties, there is a fair chance that his composition may become something of a classic. History always seems to require a lot of farewells...