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Bootblack Posted February 24, 2010 @ 6:28 pm In Black,Colors | No Comments A bootblack is someone who cleans and shines shoes. |
“He comes to America to earn his fortune and finds, in contrast to his bustling, beautiful home country, a dusty, desolate city full of predators. He sets up operations as a bootblack, but really enters the American economy only when an Irish ward heeler slips him a few bucks, urging him to get his Italian friends to vote for a corrupt councilman.”
—Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: ‘Perils of the New Land,’” The New York Times, August 11, 2008.
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