Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guralnick takes the reader many places: in Chicago, to Muddy Waters' house, to the moribund offices of Chess and to the hospital for a visit with Howling Wolf; to Newport, 1964, for the dramatic recovery of Skip James; to backwoods Louisiana, for "a real country supper" with Robert Pete Williams; and to Memphis, for visits with Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich. Wherever possible, he lets the artist tell his own story. He wastes little time attempting to describe a musician's style, instead concentrating on tracing the man's influences. One begins to sense the intimacy of the circles...
...front of the old St. Nick's rink in New York before games, and after the games, the personal valets of the players would bring over tails and white gloves to the locker room so that their young masters could go off to a post-game champagne supper...
When the grievance committee met with Warden Moore on the eve of this present work strike and requested that he make some meaningful changes, other than just cereal at supper, and warned him of possible trouble if he insisted in refusing to comply with some of our 140-odd grievances--he replied by stating: "The battle lines have been drawn, I'm the captain of this ship. I'll go down with my ship." We prisoners have abandoned the ship! Moore is not keeping us confined to our cages: we refuse to come...
...battalions of missionaries were also learning something about each other. The Spaniards were bewildered at first by the sobbing, arm-flailing exhortations imported from Dixie. For their part, the Texans were embarrassed by the thimble-size glasses of wine passed out during the Spanish Baptists' Holy Supper. Teetotalers, they take grape juice...
...object transformed into many different things is interesting." In Tom Paine he utilized a large blue cross that became, by turns, the sea, Marie Antoinette's gown and eventually a termite queen. "In Superstar," O'Horgan points out enthusiastically, "the altar is also the table for the Last Supper and the rock upon which Christ prays. Then it becomes a cart in which the soldiers push Jesus. That pushing around the stage creates energy...