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...Emerald Isle has one of the few playable golf courses (eleven holes) in the Lesser Antilles. Its beaches are of black volcanic sand; the only white sand beach can be reached by a mountain hike or a charter sail. While the food is more plain than fancy, there is one excellent restaurant, Café le Cabotin. The best show in town is at the Vue Pointe, a 40-room bungalow-cottage complex. The hotel becomes le tout Montserrat on Wednesday nights, when steel bands like the Montserrat Symphony perform...
Reagan is watching his campaign slowly slip away, the sand crumbling under his feet, like a kind trying to stand in the backwash of the surf. There are still hopeful signs; Reagan speaks of a "national constituency" explaining that Iowa (and, perhaps, New Hampshire) aren't as important as America. And downstairs, a middle-aged woman tries to get into the "security area" the Secret Service man have set up around the candidate. She is armed with a Canon AE-1, 200 mm lens firmly attached. "I don't know how to use this...
...climb, until it had another fit of steps." The eerie, lonely beauty of perpetual dusk is condensed in an impression: "Northward above the mountain shoulder she saw one bright star shine clear, gone the next instant, lost, like the reflection in a raindrop or the glitter of mica in sand...
...different. The "ugly duckling" in a big family of tappers, he tried his hand at prizefighting. When boxing fans cheered his pre-fight dancing on the resin in the corner of the ring more than his boxing, he took up dancing seriously, incorporating into his act the sand dance that gave him his nickname. Sims steals Nierenberg's film. He loves the attention, claiming to be tap's Muhammed Ali, and in a "weighing-in" ceremony on a city street before the big night, he taunts Green and Briggs, daring them to tap it out "here...
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