"There was everyone in black whispering about how stunning she looked wearing color," Menkes recalls.
He mingles so easily with whites that his black friends whisper that he seems uncomfortable around Africans.
He held it in his right palm and, gently slipping it into a little black pouch, whispered: "Gold!" Not quite.
Then, after the pink disappeared, the applause from the knowledgable Crucible crowd (John Virgo™) died down, and Thorburn pulled back his cue for the last black, Karnehm whispered: "Oh, good luck mate".
Here are a few: "Heather Whiteman Runs Him," "Whisper Black Elk," "Buttock on Both Ends (a warrior in the Custer battle)." He also creates a brief lexicon of Lakota words.
On the first day of rehearsal I was shaking at the prospect of meeting Maestro William Christie for the first time, but he told our cast, "Don't you worry about anything - just give me everything you've got: soft and loud, black and white, whisper and yell, and we'll be just fine".
I mean, do you have a white relative or neighbor or friend who always says the word "black" in a whisper?
They privately whisper "Black Lives Matter" but when push comes to shove they are leading imaginary picket lines waving an "All Lives Matter" flag with a group of people who, in all actuality, are rooting for them to stand in opposition to police brutality.
"Baa baa black sheep," Mary whispers.
"It's called Black Velvet," he whispers to me.
