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...seemed then that he was always doing bits, was always "on." Friends recall that he would go into a diner, sit next to a little old lady and calmly make a meal out of his paper napkin ?complete with salt, pepper and ketchup. He also liked to knock on strangers' doors and inquire politely, "Is this the party?" Or walk into one door of a Checker cab stopped in traffic and out the other (apologizing to the passenger), or call up relatives and confound them with some uncanny voice impersonation of the rabbi or the neighborhood butcher...
...Penitentiary after they were arrested in Natchez. According to a lawsuit now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the troopers encouraged harsh treatment of the prisoners, who were stripped and forced to take strong laxatives; one testified that she was made to use her slip as a sanitary napkin...
...culturally deprived you've been. I have found myself eating at much better restaurants than I'd been accustomed to, and being ill at ease as a result of wondering constantly 'Am I doing this right? Am I picking up the fork right, folding the napkin right?' Of course, through practice you learn, but this is something that white people just don't realize exists within the black...
...brought out four large coffee machines, styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, and so forth, along with a huge box of packaged coffee-cakes. Each package had one yellow roll with sugar frosting smeared against the Saran wrap that held it and a pat of margarine on a blue paper napkin. I ate the frosting off mine with a cup of coffee and sent it and its wrapping to join millions of others under the bleachers...
Jerry had the gift of instantly, almostly psychically, realizing whatever Roy needed at the table. Roy dropped his napkin, and without a word, Jerry handed his own to Roy. When Roy consumed the portion on his plate, the tray of sliced meats was automatically before...