Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lenny Bruce, striding past taboos that stood as barriers to communication, was a liberator of language. When Bruce ripped through his monologue, his audience could do one of two things: laugh in self-conscious embarassment or leave in a huff. The early '60s comedian--probably the most controversial in the trade's history--mined a rich, dark vein of American humor; he dug for the mother lode--religion, race, drugs, sex, morals. He rooted through the secret and sordid alleys of the subconscious, exposing them to an unsettlingly clear light...
...least part time on behalf of the Korean CIA before he fled Washington last fall to avoid questioning, and Seoul surely could serve him up if it seemed necessary to appease American critics. Seeking to show that that kind of appeasement might be necessary, a freshman New York Congressman, Bruce F. Caputo, urged the House to lop off $110 million earmarked for South Korea in a foreign aid appropriations bill. Caputo's amendment was defeated by a vote...
...Bruce M. Bailey, another member of the taxpayer's association, pinpointed what may be the white's central worry: the suit has cast doubts on the whites' legal claim to their own land. The Indian Non-intercourse Act, as Tureen and many of the Wamponoags have stated, applies to all the lands the Indians once owned. Creating an uncertain legal and financial situation, Bailey said, no bank will give a mortgage on Gay Head property, nor will an attorney certify legal title, James Howell, a Gay Head real estate agent, says. Virtually no land sales have occured since the suit...
Three-fifths of his protective covering is also new. Mike Clark and Bruce McKinnon were busting chops in '76, but Joe Kross, Reid Cocalis and Joe Pellegrin were mostly collecting splinters...
...next passed right by the offensive line with hardly a sound. Maybe he didn't want to say nuthin', but he didn't have to, 'cuz even I knew that Bruce McKinnon and Mike Clark were back, which is two more guys than was back in '76, and even Rod Carew, you know, the baseball guy, would take two for five and not hassle...