skin game
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Crouch’s criticism was collected into “Notes of a Hanging Judge,” “The All-American Skin Game” and other books.
From Seattle Times
In “Skin Game” in the main space, the maverick performance artist and erstwhile sculptor Michael Mahalchick riffs on appropriation and popular culture.
From New York Times
For cultural critic Stanley Crouch, jazz served as a metaphor for democracy, the rejection of the limits of class and caste reflected in a music “in which improvisation declares an aesthetic rejection of the preconceptions that stifle individual and collective invention,” as he wrote in his 1995 collection, “The All-American Skin Game.”
From Washington Post
The whole thing was a skin game—Frank and his precious wife had seen ruination comin' on and they'd laid plans to feather their own nest and let the rest of us whistle.
From Project Gutenberg
Venly he said 263 he didn’t have any stomach for a skin game like that.”
From Project Gutenberg
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