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...women seem somewhat fatalistic about their job security. "You've just to keep workin' and hope there's gonna be enough fish," says one woman shovelling an armful of sardines from the conveyer belt. "And it's awfully nice that young Congressman wanted to come through and talk to us. Maybe he can do something about it for us down in Washington...
...First job I got was workin' in W. 4th St. I was on my 18th year when I went to Lincoln Center. I lived with a girl friend so I didn't have to pay no rent. Then I was livin' alone. I had John Paul in 1969, and Mandy...
Spike and Mary Lou sidled closer. "Workin' in the fillin' station.... too many tasks... check the tires... check the oil... wash the windows... Dollar gas... too much monkey business... too much monkey business." It was time for bump and grind. Bump at the elbow. Bump and grind at the hip. The band speeded up. The crowd licked their lips, joined the action, sipped more beer. It was Mary Lou and Spike all alone, center stage. Bump, Bump, Bump. And grind. "Too much monkey business...
...arranged English words according to a syntax resembling that of West African languages. Black English does not require a distinction between present and past tenses, for example, but it does require a differentiation between continuous and momentary action. Thus, Dillard notes, if a black says of a laborer, "He workin' when de boss come in," he means that the man worked only when the boss was present. On the other hand, if he says, "He be workin' when de boss come in," he means the work went on before and after the boss's entry. Similarly...
...revealed his own essential contradiction. There is a showman within Van Morrison, and the tension between that showman and an apparent detachment creates his stage presence. His band gave him a soul-style introduction, thirty seconds of sustained chording, and on he came--to sing "I've Been Workin'," without his guitar, just alone at the microphone. His detachment was extraordinary. By the time he sang "Cypress Avenue," however, he'd worked himself into a pacing tension that led to high kicks, head shaking, a shouted "Too late to stop now," a dropped microphone, and then he'd gone...