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After missing nine out of nine last year the old Clocker Spaniel hesitantly dusts off his Crystal Ball for his predictions on the local horse racing opener at Lincoln Downs. Nine races are on tap, with the track listed as slow...
...Tap dancer...
...issue which he wants to tap in his next play, Miller said, is "whether a relationship may exist between man and society which does not leave him less that he was, with aborted personality, essentially alone or even crushed . . . whether a man can not become more aware, more sensitive, instead of narrowing into a tool of survival and an organ of defensiveness...
...often as not, he will seize a rebound, feed off to a teammate and dash down the court as a team leader in a quick-scoring break. As a scorer with lay-ups, tap-ins, set shots, Dukes drops a phenomenal 48% of his shots, sinks better than 70% of his throws from the foul line...
James Street, who is best known for his rawboned bestsellers about the antebellum South (Mingo Dabney, Tap Roots), is modest enough not to confuse his merchandise with literature. "Those of us who write for profit," he once said, "must never forget that if we drink the punch we must take the pokes." The book business being what it is, Novelist Street is pretty sure to get another bowlful of punch for The Velvet Doublet...