Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
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On seeing a 1956 performance by Billie Holiday, Talking to Myself Bk. 4 (1977) Ch. 4Studs Terkel
Terkel, Studs
Terman, Frederick
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