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...audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew wider, the stomp more frantic. The flopping mop of hair did its best, but could not completely hide the tightening grimace of the face. As the mouth opened wide, the macadam voice, scarred by booze and cigarettes, grew louder and bolder...
...workers are furious. As far as they can tell, they certainly wouldn't be where they are now if they had had a chance to go to college. And to their minds, college is just a place where everyone sleeps together anyway. Kids nowadays get to romp and stomp for four years and then slip into some easy manager's job while they have to build these hideous monsters in the stinking city...
Jewish temple bombing. Then there was Snick and CORE and, more recently, the S.D.S. Not to mention the anti-fluoridationists, the women's liberationists and the Committee to Stomp Out the Fire Ant." Newspapers, the editorial continued, can be measured by the enemies they make. "We are proud of ours. So, welcome, Governor...
...There have been a number of big stomps in our time. There was the "Bristol Stomp," "Foot Stomping," then "Bongo Stomp." Which group was responsible for which song...
...like for a white man to starve. Even then I am unable to comprehend the overwhelming extent to which black people are forced into the worst jobs, the extent to which they are beaten and murdered by the police, the extent to which they have the creativity stomp-out of them. I can read the Black Panther every week, but all I can grasp each week is another eviction, or another Panther office destroyed. I could multiply the number of times each of those incidents takes place in this country each week, by ten or a hundred or a thousand...