Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catch a Rising Star...
Gary Lazar, another nationally-known comedian and MC for the evening at The Catch, told the audience about his serious problem with hallucinogenic drugs. It seems Gary thinks his parrot escaped one day from its cage, tied him up, and said, "Now you repeat what I say!" And Paul Kozlowski, winner of a Boston-area comedy contest and Sunday's third performer, let us know that his entire family is inbred. Now I personally don't care if all of Cambridge knows that his mom is also his aunt, but maybe his father--I mean uncle--does...
...friend who accompanied me to the show saw both Jerry and Gary at The Catch in New York City during winter vacation. They were telling most of the same jokes back then...
Gary and Jerry performed at The Catch for the opening week only and will now return to their families to get more material for their acts. Paul Kozlowski, however, will return to the scene every Sunday night to imitate the sound of a cat falling from a helicopter and landing on asphalt...
Reed wages constant war against what Northrop Frye calls "the lumber of stereotypes, fossilized beliefs, superstitious terrors, crank theories, pedantic dogmatisms, oppressive fashions and all other things that impede the free movement of society." He refuses to use buzz-words or catch-phrases with the easy eloquence of a critic. He refuses to label himself as part of any tradition, be it post-modernist, anti-feminist, even Afro-American. He refuses to talk in categories--when asked about Black writing, he talks about Native Americans, Italian-Americans...