Word: steps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play. Anger is the kind of thing Ed Bullins is writing about, and Leroi Jones, with "eighteen muthah-fuckahs" and "I'm gonna kill yoah ass" and all that. Which is perfectly valid, and thef're absolutely right in what they're writing about. But Genet has gone one step behind, after the auger, when a man no longer says "I'm gonna kill yoah assi" He can sit back and say "I'm going to kill you." And smile, and smile, and be a villain, as the man said. An it's much more frightening. In 1961, when...
...trial, and the last ten were standbys. If any spectator left the courtroom, his seat would be given to one of the standbys. When 10 a. m. arrived, these select thirty-five would be corralled into elevators and taken to the twenty-third floor of the building, a step closer to the trial itself. Finally, at 10:15 the courtroom door would open, and they would enter in single file to find seats in the rear of the courtroom. A similar procedure would admit an additional thirty-five to the afternoon session of the trial...
Some fans of the game carry it one step further. Author Don Mankiewicz, for example, played it the easy way for years with I DECIDE for an office number, UP STICK for home. But he changed offices last fall, and today acquaintances who want to get in touch with him are told to dial the answer to the question "What do you use to blast your way through the ice, Amundsen?" Those still interested in making the call can reach him at TNT BYRD...
...then as you're standing there shaking the snow off your second step into the all-new Western Front, you begin to marvel at the fantastic new decor they've got going at this place, and you decide that the Western Front is just something else...
...Erie Behrens is apparently out of a job at 134, where he filled in against M. I. T. and Cornell. Sophomore Rick Battle, a former Illinois state high school champion who did not wrestle as a fresh man last year, came out for the team last week and will step in immediately...