Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour adjourns to the Martin Luther King Memorial Library downtown, a large, gloomy building in the soul-crushing modernist style. Here the search for a rest room takes on a literary character, mainly Kafkaesque: a visitor finds the men's room down a darkened corridor on the third floor, just past the security cameras, but it's locked and a sign on the door says AFTER 5:30 USE MEN'S ROOM ON A-LEVEL...
...play but how you play that counts), and even agents and club owners are basically benign. Trouble is always an intruder from outside -- a narc obsessed with pinning bad raps on musicians, society ladies slumming, rock 'n' roll making rude noises on the periphery -- attacking the soul when it is restlessly idling between gigs. Bird, for all his troubles, is a wonderfully attractive figure, delighting in the lilt of big words and fine phrases, turning the memory of the moment he found his style into a throwaway comic anecdote. When he steals a saxophone from a rival who has gone...
This brings to mind a scene from the movie Soul Man, which illustrates this point brillantly. Two white kids, captains of pick-up basketball teams, argue over who gets to pick a Black who has just strolled into...
...laboratory, Ben Johnson. Your soul is on our dissecting table. We are stripping it away...
...watching the clock. How fast will your soul disappear...