Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional claptrap" [Aug. 21], but one of the long line of heroes such as Hercules, d'Artagnan and John Ridd, whom most men and boys have always revered and emulated. Who but Tarzan could have remained motionless for ten minutes while a poisonous insect walked over his skin, including his bare eyeball...
CARIBBEAN. At night, torches blaze in the breeze, couples congregate at thatched-roof tables, while brown-skinned babes in tighter-than-skin pants gyrate to the hot blasts and calypso beat of bongo drums and steel bands. There is no place to dance, but the itchy-footed shake or shuffle outside on the sidewalk. It's better not to mention the food, but there is a $3 minimum after...
because my skin...
...each denoting a different stage in Joe's movement toward disaster. Happily, Davis is a great song stylist and impersonator. In each song he assumes a different pose. His delivery has a pulsating energy and clarity of effect. He yearns wistfully in a large, throaty voice for girls "with skin as white as cream." Or, as in 'Colorful," he stands smirking with his hands poised effeminately and spits out in a jazzy, mocking voice, "As the Duchess of Windsor might say, Black is me." The sheer force of Davis's personality hides his and the script's failure to create...
...some streets, men who cannot find jobs sit on stoops playing pinochle and coon can and Georgia skin, or drinking "Dirty Bird" wine at 60? a pint from bottles hidden in brown paper bags. Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them. Half of Harlem's children under 18 live with only one parent or none, and it is small wonder that the juvenile delinquency rate is more than double New York's or that the venereal...