There's a profanity-laced tirade about mean-spirited blue jays, for example, and an anecdote about emitting unintended bodily functions in front of a new boyfriend.
To sing solo is to take a stand, to take up space in the world, to broadcast your identity, which is why the agent of liberation in Walker's story is a free-spirited blues singer named Shug Avery (the vivacious Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, making an impressive Broadway début).
While Jasiniah was unsupervised, she said, Ms. Allen took the baby out of her bassinet, clipped off her security anklet, wrapped her in a blue blanket and spirited her off the floor and out the door.
Color options: liquid silver, winter frost, onyx, radiant ember, red opulence, majestic blue, champagne mist, spirited bronze.
Among the finds were Virgil Thomson's powerful rendering of Blake's "Tyger, Tyger"; Paul Bowles's evocative "Blue Mountain Ballads"; and spirited, richly melodic settings of Langston Hughes poems by Margaret Bonds ("The Negro Sings of Rivers and Jean Bergerer ("Lonely People").
There, the haul of tablets, costing about $12,000, was transferred to red, white and blue wholesale bags, which Wong then spirited out the back door into another car.
So you'd come away from a spirited session at the wheel with black and blue marks on your kneecaps and a profound sense that, while fun, this was a car you simply were too large to own.
The Scouts' spirited founder.
