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...Braddock -all in three years. He did not waste words, either: "As soon as I catch 'em, I put 'em to sleep." When critics doubted that he could take the lighter, classier Billy Conn in 1941, Louis observed, "He can run, but he can't hide...
...prevented the Legal Aid Commission and other church groups from visiting the area. The regime justifies sealing off the region because it's dangerous to visit. A spokesman from the El Salvadorean embassy in Washington denied that the government had closed off the area because it had something to hide...
...production's tedium; the vital subplots crumble into meaninglessness. The only spontaneity occurs when three-year-old Tyler Vogt, as one of Nora's sons, toddles onstage and glares at the audience. He's just as confused as the rest of the cast, but he doesn't try to hide it. Whatever the faults of Kean and company, their determination is clear, their failure noble...
...Garden, Just as I Am. A priest reads from Job and speaks of the "gift of music" that Albert Walters had. Funerals like Walters', as William J. Schafer fairly puts it in Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazz, are "public acts, theatrical displays designed not to hide burial as a fearful obscenity but to exhibit it as a community act." And the public's participation afterward is "a celebration of life as much as a recognition of the triumph of death...
THERE IS an understanding that even the lightest skin cannot hide any traces of African blood from the eyes of another Black person. For Toni Morrison, this blood reveals itself as a ghost. She sees ghosts haunting each pair of eyes, coloring every Black man or woman's skin, ghosts that become, for Black people, a cloak and an identity. Toni Morrison must stare very hard and deep into the brown faces she sees, watching these ghosts so intently that they have become alive themselves and are often more vibrant than the human beings whose lives they influence...