Word: breslin
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...Breslin is fast. He is colorful, outrageous, witty. He likes his image as a "tough" and he cultivates that image...
...Nobody ever gave me nothin'," Breslin says. "Everything I got I grabbed with my own fuckin' hands." And he is proud of his do-it-the-hard-way success...
Without losing momentum, Breslin swung around a corner to the topic of Spiro Agnew. Interviewed the morning before Agnew resigned, he offered some comic prophecy and analysis...
...underneath the tough-skinned Breslin, behind the wall of bullshit, in back of the Queens accent, the slovenliness, the vainglorious earthiness, is another Breslin. A Breslin who is frustrated and angered by a society that programs people to failure and ignores compelling social problems...
When he talks about these things, the bravado front softens. Foremost in Breslin's book is the problem of jobs in the cities--especially for blacks: "If you don't put jobs in the ghetto, you're going to have crime and fear forever. We need these jobs, because as long as you can start them on the work you can cut down the crime. But you can't expect results right away. You're going to have to struggle and make excuses and work with these bastards for another 50, 75, who knows how many, years...