Word: spearmint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White to Black. Willie Spearmint is also a writer, though his ways are more direct. Black, consumed by the reality of his color, Spearmint takes over an abandoned apartment in the building and begins to cut out steaming hunks of black experience on an antique L.C. Smith. "Man, can't you see me writing on my book?" he growls when Lesser first appears. Lesser tries to be helpful -white to black, writer to writer, man to man. He keeps Spearmint's typewriter safe from night-crawling junkies. He buys the black writer a few sticks of furniture. There...