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...early morning light, the desert sunrise even--while listening to the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It's strong seventies imagery, all cowboy songs, loping and drifting beneath a painted sky, past cactus and rocky badlands. My brother didn't take off his high boots and NRPS tee shirt for two years...
...country; we sweat over its cornhusking fields and gas up at a service station cum grocery store cum library. The attendant is corn-fed chunky and straw-haired and even voiced. He can only pump regular gas, and when a lady from Taos. New Mexico in an Aubrey Beardsley tee-shirt asks for High Test, he mumbles an incoherent reply. Eyes in the till. Billy Graham manuals--step by step guides to the appreciation of the middle life--coexist side by side on the book racks with Reinhold Niebuhr tomes on something or other profound. Fred buys...
...long, running mirror behind the bar, a couple of pool tables, and two poker tables in the rear. The dance hall is locked. Only a dozen people are in the joint. All are kids: a blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans who's loosing her battle for the shag-cut brown-haired, fishy-moustached, brown-oiled, flat-faced stud in the bleach spotted blue...
...first tee is filled with foursomes; on the practice green, more players stand poised over putts. The game may be golf, but it bears scant resemblance to the pastime of the country-club set. The scene is Detroit's Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players are some of the city's best-and best-known-black golfers. The aim is action, bankrolls are at the ready, and the style is straight soul. Indeed, to play Palmer Park is to take a lesson in lively ethnic semantics...
Golfers "stick it in the ground" rather than tee the ball up. Clubs are "hammers," a shanked shot is a "pitch-out," and breaking par is "ducking the card." The art of psyching your opponent is known as "woofing." And a player with a lethal putter is an "undertaker," because he can "bury" the ball...