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Alaska: The North Slope oil strike has produced the sort of rip-roaring boom that is just a memory in most of the "South 48" states. While unemployment still runs high among the Eskimos and the Aleuts, the oil workers' only problem is getting time off. North Slope truck drivers earn $76 a day, Monday through Friday, and $100 a day on Saturday and Sunday-but they work six weeks straight before knocking off two weeks to rest...
...only because it is the most graphic illustration of everything that The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger ends up being about, but also because, by the end of the book -by the time Cecil Brown has led you through the garish circus of lies, illusions, and rip offs that go reeling through the world of his characters - it will be good to have a "message" that definite and unequivocal to hang on to. Fuck you. And you. And you. And you. In this book, the words are not meant as a challenge, or a threat, or a command...
While Cleavon Little brings a rip-roaring fervor to Purlie's evangelistic soliloquies, the cute cutup who steals the show, the evening and the audience's heart is the back-country girl (Melba Moore) who falls in love with Purlie. Melba Moore is a delightfully innocent minx, a girl who seems to have swallowed joy for breakfast. When she sings, the sun shines in, and when she dances, her feet play truant from the earth...
...centers will supply numbered envelopes for drug samples. Those submitting the samples will rip off a numbered stub from the envelope. The centers will not ask for names...
...water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel locomotives, push small bridges hundreds of feet from their pilings and rip up vast reaches of forest...