Word: carlinized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHOW: GEORGE CARLIN LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT...
...BOTTOM LINE: Now in his third incarnation, Carlin remains the most daring and impassioned comedian around...
PROWLING THE STAGE LIKE A FEral street preacher, George Carlin has launched into one of his carefully calculated rants, poised somewhere between comedy and a call to arms. Bad news, he insists, is what he most likes to watch on TV; it means the system is breaking down. "I want to see a paint factory blowing up.I want to see an oil refinery explode. I want to see a tornado hit a church on Sunday. I want to know there's some guy running through the K Mart with an automatic weapon firing at the clerks. I want...
...Oops. Carlin's new hbo special was taped two weeks ago, well before the Los Angeles riots, but that won't make his bitterly ironic tirade any less discomfiting to viewers watching it now. Carlin himself, in fact, may be the only person it won't bother. Making people uneasy is his business...
Ironically, Chelsea is no longer a democratic city in every sense of the word. The city has been transformed into a receivership, under the helm of one state appointed manager-Carlin-until further notice...