Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"You'd go to Florida," he said, "and you'd be out of a job. So you'd join up with the minstrel show going north. At least with the circus you'd have a berth-filthy as it was-on a train. With the minstrel show you had to...
History comes back. . . . Unlike my grandparents, I know nothing of front stoops and Stock Market Crashes and travelling around with a circus. And yet, the gulf does not seem so wide. The time that separates me from them is not oppressive. Is it clutching at straws to believe that some...
My grandparents had to take their nap. I got up to leave, and, as I did, my grandfather expressed his hope that I would avail myself of the ample alcoholic refreshments there would be at the party. Before I could answer, my grandmother laughed, closed off the conversation with a...
AN EVEN cooler, Miami night. Cars slither up and down Collins Avenue, making those whoosh sounds that cars seem to make only when there is a beach nearby. Inside, big flower arrangements, place-cards, mounds of chicken liver, egg rolls, glasses clinking, uncles running around flashing Instamaties, loud laughter, embraces...
Endless drinking. Nat has to abstain-his stomach has been upset lately. My grandmother, almost jogging around in her long silver-white dress, helps herself. So do I. So do my mother, my three uncles (all of whom are named Sidney), my aunts (Bert and Dot and Frances), and my...