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Bator continued, "In the executive branch we've shot the bolt today. From now on we just have to work on Congress. If these guys get us all out of Vietnam in 90 days, we'll have the biggest crow dinner-and we'll all vote for Richard Nixon in 1972." Nervous laughter all around...
...brother, I. J. Singer, who wrote The Brothers Askkenazi, was here; and I wanted to be with him. The second reason was I was afraid of Hider. There was a third reason-I didn't make a living in Warsaw." A smile spread across his face, and the crow's fect at the corners of his eyes became deeper and merrier. I knew he was about to tell a story...
Without the presence of blacks, our political history would have been otherwise. No slave economy, no Civil War; no violent destruction of the Reconstruction; no K.K.K. and no Jim Crow system. And without the disenfranchisement of black Americans and the manipulation of racial fears and prejudices, the disproportionate impact of white Southern politicians upon our domestic and foreign policies would have been impossible. Indeed, it is almost impossible to conceive of what our political system would have become without the snarl of forces-cultural, racial, religious-that makes our nation what it is today...
...devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson, who takes a gently self-mocking, cerebral approach to blackness. "I wasn't too surprised to hear there was a group starting a back-to-Africa movement. They say that within...
...onto another train. It wheezed out of the station, only to stall several times along the way. Mrs. Loewe had flown from West Germany to the U.S. in 7½ hours. Her journey from Kennedy Airport to her home in New York's Westchester County?30 miles, as the crow flies ?took five hours...