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had done the same thing yean before, was full of hope — the narrator/driver could see the potential of the nowhere, working-class life the boy was embracing, but he himself had transcended it and come through.

The cadence of the prose /poetry seemed to rush forward, propelled by the intensity of the narrator's feelings, and enhanced the imagry of the car racing down the road and the boy rushing into life, driven by feelings he cannot articulate.

The text consisted more of impressions and recollections than of descriptions of the present action, but those given were crisp and carefully-chosen: the color of the boy’s hair and eyes, the wind rushing by the car, the man-to-man handshake as they parted ways.

Following Van came a totally different type of energy which filled the theater as fully as the story had — breakdance music! From the back of the theatre danced Herbert Shanks, whose special gift for this newest dance craze created electricity in the air. The kinetic type of movement used in breakdancing flows as easily from dancer to audience as it does from head to toe, for everyone present was dancing by the end of Herbie’s piece, in spirit if not on foot.

RAAC’s name is so cumbersome written out that one rarely sees it in its entirety—the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and ' the Community. Events like the Talent Showcase, however, show that it is aptly named.

"The Ground Between Us’

Sally Nash and Laura

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