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Dressed in black, with a gold Star of David* glittering at his throat, Crouch generated his own kind of involvement. The singer ate with the inmates and, ignoring the unwritten prison law of segregation, passed from one racial group to another with dignity and ease. Said he: "I come in the name of Jesus. Wash me in your precious blood as I open the door of my heart and receive you as my Lord and Saviour...
...always wore long light-blue chiffon to set off her golden hair. She peered into the gloom. 'Where's everybody?' she called . . . Lou Stillman approached. I don't know if he produced one of his in finitesimal spittles. Let us say he cleared his throat. 'Everybody is not here,' he said." Such stories have been unavailable since the days of A.J. Liebling's The Sweet Science. They explain why plimping is restricted to one man. - John Skow
...Waiting" is meaningless and facile; "Tomorrow Never Came" is pure filler. Half of the songs on the album just don't work, and are failures made all the more disappointing by the excellence of the other half of the album. Scaggs may have cut his own throat on this record by not sustaining high standards the whole way through, but if his fans stick with him through the low points on this album (as they should), the promise of what he may do in the future looks great...
...percent of Native children were found to have serious hearing handicaps by age four. The death rate for tuberculosis is four times as high among Indians as among non-Indians. ...On the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota), Indians are 40 times more likely than the general population to contract strep throat and scarlet fever." Overall, the mere chance of maturing for Native Americans is small...
...after all that, the New Yankees got into the World Series and seemed to say to themselves, "Well, we did it. Now let's settle down and play some ball." And they did; they stuffed the rah-rahs down Tom Lasorda's throat and, for a change, undisputedly...