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...assigned and almost at once reached out for their breasts as nonchalantly as they helped themselves to fruit on the table." He observes the clownish scenes that take place each night at subway stations as impeccable railway attendants try to steer hordes of drunks toward their trains. He hears sad stories that would never have escaped without the lubricant of booze. At one bar, a fellow drinker confides that his wife is pregnant and his salary insufficient to support a child. Ultimately, Morley is invited to sleep off the hours before daybreak at this man's apartment. At breakfast...
...texture of a '50s B movie: these are small, doomed people viewed unsentimentally as they take their sport in cramped bedrooms or walk along soot-swathed streets with murder in their eyes. Though Richardson has the showstopper part, Holm is the class act here. With his finicky mustache and sad, knowing eyes, he poignantly deadpans Des' coaled passion for Ruth. Des alone knows what her obsession with David will lead to. Ever the decorous Englishman, he is powerless to stop...
...Brownie and Pete and Queenie and Scout, and we bumped along in the racket, row by row. Now all the giants are gone; everybody's about my size or smaller. Few people could lift me up, and 1 don't know that I'm even interested. It's sad to be so old." He is only 43, but he can work himself up to feeling old at moments like this...
...Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently drifted off to an unhappy ending...
Mead peels off these labels and traces Louis' career from the early days in a Detroit ghetto to the sad years of deterioration. Pugilism came easily to Louis, but he was not a natural celebrity. His advisers remembered that the previous black champion, Jack Johnson, had ruined his career with temperamental outbursts and interracial romances. Accordingly, they merchandised Louis' innate dignity and sold him as a shy family man given to choice utterances like "He can run, but he can't hide" and, during World War II, "We are on God's side." The champion did not disappoint his public...