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...demand a new contract that gives me some independence. If he fires me, he'll never live it down, with these fans." He sounded surer of himself now, more confident that he had an edge in the battle with the owner. "A little Dago like me fixed his ass. If I get fired, I've still got something inside of me that will beat him. I'll come back and haunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nice Guys Always Finish . . . ? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...Phiadelphia Story. The summer after my freshman year I fell ass over elbows in love with an older woman, and my ardor for her has remained constant, if unrequited. As Tracy Lord, a spoiled Main Line Socialite who is humanized by the forces of drink. Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, Katerine Hepburn turns in one of the most wonderful performances of her career. George Cukor skillfully directed this film version of the modern Midsummer Night's Dream that saved the National Theater Guild from bankruptcy. Grant is perfect in his Oberon role, masterfully elliptical and indirect. Ditto Jimmy Steward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cold War and Cold Blood | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...athletic limbo created by the rule was a "pain in the ass" for Joe. "It was something I was prepared for--provided the freshman program was at least competitive--and it wasn't. I am no better now than I was when I left high school, and I should be a quantum leap better...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Bound By the Ivy | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...young girls in the ghetto believe that the only way for them to get something in this society is by becoming pregnant and getting on welfare." One Harlem hustler makes the all-too-typical rationalization: "Everybody steals. Politicians steal. What's the use to bust my ass from 9 to 5 to get $100 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...says, "they give niggers time as if they were giving lunch. You go [to court] looking for justice, and that's just what you find -just us." On his album Bicentennial Nigger he says, "We're celebrating 200 years of white folks kicking ass... You all probably have forgotten about it. Well, I ain't never gonna forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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