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Word: assi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eighteen muthah-fuckahs" and "I'm gonna kill yoah ass" and all that. Which is perfectly valid, and thef're absolutely right in what they're writing about. But Genet has gone one step behind, after the auger, when a man no longer says "I'm gonna kill yoah assi" He can sit back and say "I'm going to kill you." And smile, and smile, and be a villain, as the man said. An it's much more frightening. In 1961, when we did it in New York, anger and hatred were the same thing, and that play erupted...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Genet's The Blacks: A Director's Viewpoint | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

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