Word: carliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Republican Governor Robert Bennett, 51, brushed aside two token primary opponents. Even Republicans, however, complain that he does not seem to be much of a Kansan with his beard and his officious manner. He is also under attack for the rise in property taxes. But his Democratic opponent, John Carlin, 38, the boyish-looking speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, is still relatively unknown in a state where Republicans out-number Democrats three...
...words, as defined entities, are self-limiting; now Carlin has come to a plateau in his life where new and fresh words and ironies are getting harder to find. He is literally fighting to free himself from his own words, and he'll try to do it through film...
Unwittingly summarizing his own situation, Carlin talks about his teenage drug experience: "The trouble with drugs is that they are self-limiting. They open certain doors of perception which you already have--the drug doesn't add anything which isn't already there. Even with LSD and mescaline, you reach a point where it just doesn't do as much for you anymore...
...very interested in having a movie career-writing, and being in them, some combination of arts and skills. The first one is called "The Illustrated George Carlin" and there'll be a lot of concert footage with some cartooning and little vignettes. As far as I know no comedian has made a film with his own concert footage...
...Carlin harbors no intentions of decaying, of joining the Show Biz Kids in Hollywood by the swimming pool and the shapely bods. The wiry Irish class clown and streetcorner toker from White Harlem still enjoys visiting his mother in the old neighborhood, and seems to gain perspective on his life as he ages. Soon his funny beard will turn gray--and age and eternity aside, it is painful to imagine that George Carlin will become a prisoner of his own words...