Word: doin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's why he liked it when all them experts picked Brown and Yale to win, 'cuz then he could just sorta breeze along in private, doin' his thing behind closed doors, so to speak, without no one lookin'. But events, well they forced Joe to show his hand early, and now while he's all happy to be in first place, and all, he knows he's still got a big month ahead...
...doin' beautiful?" he asks, leaning against a lamp-post with no lamp on top. "You a policewoman?...No?...Your boyfriend inside there...
...sorta nice out tonight, ain't it? What're you doin' out here?" the man continues, gesturing towards the street. Taxi-cabs swish by, lots of them, all with their VACANT signs turned off. And it doesn't look so good to you. But their headlights shimmer in the rain and are kind of pretty and the sidewalks look like patent leather with all the garbage washed off for once...maybe if you weren't sated all the time with Chopin and ivy-covered brick and first editions of Shelley you might get something out of this back street, might...
...started a routine there at a little club. In 1963 he went to New York City and cabarets in Greenwich Village. He wanted to be like Bill Cosby, the first black comedian to achieve national success. As he remembers, he said to himself: "Goddamn it. This nigger's doin' what I'm fixin' to do. I want to be the only nigger. Ain't no room for two niggers...
...York teen-ager explained in a WCBS radio interview how he started at the age of twelve to rob old women. "I was young, and I knew I wasn't gonna get no big time. So, you know, what's to worry? If you're doin' wrong, do it while you're young, because you won't do that much time...