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...elaborate sets and scripts, with one gifted person on a stage -- it can work big. Richard Pryor proved that with his first two concert films. He scalded all civilized pretensions off his persona and helped audiences laugh and gasp at the exposed wound. Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby and Andrew Dice Clay also did monologue movies, but they lacked Pryor's life-or-death juice; they were mainly marketing tie-ins to the comics' celebrity...
...characters consist mainly of Vegas standbys--gamblers, showgirls and lounge lizards. Among the eight males and eight "females," played by men in drag, are casino-inspired Collier Bluff, Delia Cards and Roland Dice...
...Newton's model to Einstein's, and beyond, into absurdities even more profound. An underlying assumption of proportion and continuity in the world perished. The proportions between cause and effect were skewed. A minuscule event (indeed, an atom) could blossom into vast obliterations. Einstein said God does not play dice with the world. But if there was order, either scientific or moral, in God's universe, it became absurdly inaccessible...
Becoming a chef involves more than just learning to slice and dice. During the 21-month program leading to an associate's degree in occupational studies, students take courses in nutrition and cost control and spend weeks serving and cooking in the Culinary's four on-site public restaurants. (The presentation is stylish, the flavors subtle but often underseasoned.) They must also put in 600 hours of apprenticeship off campus at a C.I.A.-approved restaurant...
...evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II and played a sergeant alongside war hero Audie Murphy in the film To Hell and Back. He has ridden bulls in Oklahoma rodeos, played poker with Clint Eastwood and tossed dice with Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Las Vegas...