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...cleaved to his fiction bottle and dreams of success. "On my weekly payday, having written five reviews and collected thirty dollars," he writes, "I'd shine my rotting shoes, press my crotchstinking, shinyassed pants, trim the fray from shirt and jacket, knot up my best greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons for one costly drink amid the greatest elegance available to me, burn for one brief moment! I hoped for a triumph of décor over loneliness...
...high-stepping, svelte-styled fellow performers are not far behind. With insinuative grace, Judith Jamison uncoils in the title number to lament the bittersweet tempo of the heart at dawn. Gregg Burge and Hinton Battle challenge the speed of light with their agility, and Phyllis Hyman and Terri Klausner pour molten sensuousness into numbers like In a Sentimental Mood and Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce. If Harlem had a Renaissance court, Willa Kim's color-splashed costumes would adorn...
...just dropped his keys, not his chances at a world championship. Hamilton later said that he had become so excited by the crowd response after he completed his most difficult triple jump that he told himself, " 'Okay, here we go.' I was really wanting to pour it on then and I just skated too hard...
...Come Pour the Wine, Freeman...
...political education, however, really began three years later, when as a Ph.D. candidate, he worked as a Congressional aide. His responsibilities weren't too demanding ("If I were lucky, I would get to pour the brandy and branch water at meetings"), but he had the invaluable opportunity of sharing an office with D.B. Hardeman, an aide to Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.), then-speaker of the House...