Word: clay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struts onstage, and 17,000 New Yorkers start to cheer. Andrew Dice Clay tells jokes for a living -- dirty jokes, stag-party jokes, jokes designed to singe a churchgoer's soul and turn a feminist's stomach -- but he attracts crowds whose size and ardor would thrill a rock star. In sold-out Madison Square Garden, he looks like a samurai biker, with Brando's pout, Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like...
...destined to be the Filth Decade? What has happened to comedy, not to mention the English language, if a scoundrel like Clay can twist these fine old instruments to touch minds and make a mint? Clay may be at the rough edge of popular entertainment, but he stands there proud as well as profane, and he does not stand alone...
...Clay could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon...
Because the terms of the gift bar the department from immediately founding a professorship with Clay's money, it will probably be spent "to deal with our highest priorities...on a year-to-year basis," Jaffe said...
Reshetikhin said he was impressed with Clay's generosity towards the department...