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...draw, but, he says, "the way I felt afterwards, I didn't really feel like going into the ring again." His boxing career ended, and with a one-string tin-can bass, he began his career as a performer. Later, a big-time gambler bought him his first upright bass, and he started performing at Martin...
...followers listen closely to the rambling and often repetitive discourses of the Mahatmas, enthusiasm surfacing only in the chants they shout at the beginning and end of each speech. Sitting bolt upright, they seem to hang on to every word with a fascination that is almost childlike in its intensity. Their faith, founded on a common experience, is apparently unassailable as long as the experience remains...
...TITLE song and "Wild Children" must be taken together. "Hard Nose the Highway" is contemporary, full of lyrical references to Morrison's stormy past, and present. The moral is simple: you win some, you lose some. Labes' piano solo owes a great deal to Floyd Cramer and the cheap upright piano style. For the first time, Morrison cuts loose, holding the band on an ascending-descending riff, overdubbing his backing vocals, wailing the song into a peak, dropping back...
...front. Weren't they leaning up against one another a hundred yards from the stage? Of course there was room, there was always room for someone who knew what they wanted in this free enterprise society. If the pressure built much more people would just have to sleep upright, stacked together like cords of wood. The steady murmuring of the stepped on was punctuated every now and then by the squeals of puppies curled up around the foot of their masters' bags. There were no cats to be found in the quarter mile wide three quarters of a mile long...
...start of the meeting never deters Dunlop from continuing his performance. While Bok plays the somber straight man, Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last Fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they saw him stick out his tongue...