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...last year or so pointed him in the direction of less reliance upon the aid and assistance of the Federal government, but more on his own charisma. The Poor People's March of course is a primary example, and he had been, as James Foreman said it, in the armpit of the Federal government. Jim had been trying to get him out from under that so he could do his own thing without being monitored and advised. I think he, King, was getting into that. Unfortunately, he was monitored in other ways. And King was not the only one. Since...
...resourcefulness of agencies and their clients. Promotion reached a new level with the development of the increasingly controversial feminine-hygiene deodorants. "Businessmen ran out of parts of the body," Delia Femina explains. "We had headaches for a while, but we took care of them. The armpit had its moment of glory, and the toes, with their athlete's foot. We went through wrinkles, we went through diets. We conquered hemorrhoids. So the businessman sat back and said, 'What's left?' And some smart guy said 'The vagina.' Today the vagina, tomorrow the world...
...JUST saw my Congressman. What a jerk!" The college kid for whose benefit the remark was made laughed. It was 85 degrees. The armpit of his three-piece suit was completely sweated through, and he sympathized equally with the girl and his suit...
...already a virtuoso cello player and was on his way to revolutionizing cello technique. "There was something very awkward and unnatural in playing with a stiff arm and with one's elbows close to one's sides," he explains. "We had to hold a book under the armpit of our bowing arm while we were learning." Casals threw away the book, devised a method that freed the arms and improved left-hand fingering. He opened up the hand position, too, and found he could play four notes at once instead of three. The results made Casals famous...
...tends to narrative rather than one-liners. His harridan housewife who swears to her hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson, who takes a gently self-mocking, cerebral approach to blackness. "I wasn...