Word: delicatessen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bedroom tenement apartment on Chicago's South Side. In a flawlessly keyed first scene Bigger smashes a rat with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called "white," speculate on whites' lives, particularly as portrayed in movies of the rich. Rarely has literature afforded such ruthlessly intimate glimpses into anti-white thoughts...
...Gary Bok's expensive parties he would stand about, dazed and unhappy, talking nervously. He preferred drinking quietly with some of the men on his staff. Once he remarked that the only worthwhile thing in Philadelphia was an all-night delicatessen. But Stanley Walker worked hard, often sat late at his desk attending to routine matters. Every Saturday he caught the earliest possible train for New York, went home on Sunday night brimming with stories about nightclub celebrities and Broadway characters...