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...reason ? because they didn't trust their ad-libability, or because they thought they'd alienate, shock or bore their audience, or because they feared police hassles ? they didn't. Lenny knew, from the inside, the rough language people talked. Raised by a mother, Sally Marr, who inhabited the dingier fringes of show business, Lenny had joined the wartime Navy at 17, did a hitch on a merchant freighter, played burlesque houses for four years (often with his then-wife, stripper-singer Honey Harlowe), worked in the lowest reaches of exploitation films (his producer also financed Ed Wood's Glen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tribute to Lenny Bruce | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

...twentysomethings--sporting shiny sharkskin suits, pointy Beatles boots and tattoos--line up their bikes in the club lot. But Vespa fanatics include businessmen, middle-aged women and just regular guys. Hairstylist Robert Winslow, 29, moved from a roomy loft in New York City's tony TriBeCa to a dingier but more spacious Brooklyn apartment without a kitchen, strictly to accommodate his vintage bikes. "I'm obsessive," he says. "My place is pretty much a garage." In May, Mike Frankovich, 25, a student and founder of the Hollywood Rat Pack scooter club, rode the entire length of U.S. Route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scooters: Vroom of One's Own | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...back with a different companion, nothing is as she remembers it, and she vainly tries to recapture her past feelings for the place. Its perfect beauty, at least in her eyes, is gone. Just as she is less happy and older than on previous visits, now the grass is dingier, the buildings more rundown, the people less interesting than she recalls...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maude: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...back with a different companion, nothing is as she remembers it, and she vainly tries to recapture her past feelings for the place. Its perfect beauty, at least in her eyes, is gone. Just as she is less happy and older than on previous visits, now the grass is dingier, the buildings more rundown, the people less interesting than she recalls...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maud: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...night in Tijuana was a lot dingier than we had expected, even though we had been there before. It is really a grim city. American cars without mufflers from the early 50's roar in zig-zag patterns down the gray, blotched sidewalks. Pre-teen hookers and wiry heroin-pushers alternate street corners. A lack of curiosity and daring kept us moving past them towards tourist shops...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Confessions of a Long-Haried Aristocrat | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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