Word: sportin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honey man, there goes the strawberry seller, stopping the action cold. Musically, the composer settles for a reprise when new material is clearly called for: Summertime, that delicious throwaway, comes back three times. And, surely, the jaunty tune of A Red-Headed Woman is more appropriate to the suave Sportin' Life than to the macho Crown...
...Charleston, S.C., Porgy is the story of a crippled beggar's unconquerable love for Bess, a lady of easy virtue. So strong is Porgy's passion that he kills his rival, Crown, and when Bess is whisked off to New York by the smooth-talking Sportin' Life, Porgy quixotically sets out after her in his goat cart. Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones and Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. Other composers who have tried their...
...plays basketball in the park or galactic-warfare games at the pinball arcade all day. If there is any money left over, he and Daddy Rich go to karate movies. He juggles four chicks with Casanova skill, and he makes enough from gambling and stealing to be a real "sportin...
According to a survey by the Lead (S. Dak.) Daily Call, 42% of the locals were in favor of leaving the houses open, vs. 35% supporting their closure. Some 40 proponents of licensed lust even held a parade on Main Street to support les girls. Sportin' house advocates point out that the ladies kept to their quarters and had regular medical checkups. "They sure kept a lot of strange men off the streets," says Gayle Williams, a barmaid at Saloon Number 10. They also contributed to local charities, as well as such causes as the Jaycees and the Little...
...Dancing Legend John W. Bubbles, who created the role of Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess, lifts a still rakish derby and a still raffish tenor in It Ain't Necessarily So. Wilson is now halting of step and Bubbles is confined to a chair. Their performances affirm that careers may be long to a particular age, but talent is ageless...