Word: clay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Madonna and Andrew "Dice" Clay- in a tribute to Susan B. Anthony, April 1 at the Orifice, ahem Orpheum...
...intention been to denigrate women, I certainly would not have gone to the extent of assigning them a particular race in my act. I was not out to be another Andrew Dice Clay...
Toughest Test for Civil Libertarians Comedian Andrew Dice Clay flaunted his street-punk misogyny so outrageously that his concert film was withdrawn by 20th Century Fox and his appearance as host of Saturday Night Live prompted two women performers to walk out. Meanwhile, liberals defended to the death his right to say things they wish he'd just shut up about...
Rarely does history draw a complete and ironic circle in a single generation. In Marion, La., the result makes an odd spectacle. In this unpaved country of clay soil and bayous, deep in a wilderness of pines, stands the white brick ranch house of Joseph and Hazel Hampton, complete with gold- flecked ceilings, a built-in barbecue grill and the creamy smell of fresh carpet. The house might belong on the groomed set of Knots Landing, but it stands instead on the spot where Hazel Hampton once picked cotton, within sight of the sharecropper's cabin, now silvery from weather...
...burden of power has added weight to his taut cheeks, sketched lines under his eyes and erased the spontaneity from his grin. The face of Carlos Salinas de Gortari recalls Mexico's ubiquitous clay masks: one side smiles, free of trenchant thought; the other is a frieze of pained contemplation. That, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude 40 years ago, is typical of his countrymen: "His face is a mask, and so is his smile...