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Fourth and Avenue D is constantly crowded with people waiting to score: blacks, Hispanics and middle-class whites. Clean-cut young men in tweed jackets and attractive young women in designer jeans listen intently to the dealers' pitches. "Get your Lucky Seven here-best dope in town." "Colt .45 is Jesus bread." "Poison is mellow today...
Freeman recognizes a few other regulars. "This guy gets on the bus every night at midnight." Freeman says as a tall man with a tweed coat and glasses boards the bus near Hilles. "He must be the librarian or something...
...MAYORAL elections are going to be turning-points for both cities. The last two major big city machines may grind to a half, leaving Daley, Byrne, and White in-the-history books next to Boss Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall...
...very clear that I'm a very different creature than most of them expected-they expected a pipe-smoking guy in a tweed jacket," he said in a recent interview in his modern, half decorated office...
...other feels pain and weeps. They infuriate their father by conversing in a private language. Lewis explains: "It's the language of the angels. We were born with it." Their adoring mother tries to discourage their odd sense of joint identity: "She bought them Sunday suits-gray tweed for Lewis and blue serge for Benjamin. They wore them for half an hour, then sneaked off and came back wearing each other's jacket. They persisted in sharing everything. They even split their sandwiches in two, and swapped the halves...