Word: dudeness
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Foxx, at 49 the dean of black comedians, might have been preparing all his raffish life for the role of Junkman Fred Sanford. "He's an old black dude, and he don't take no stuff," explains Foxx. "He's a con artist. He thinks up elaborate, wily tricks, and I enjoy him." Most of his tricks are directed against his son Lament (Demond Wilson) to keep him from marrying and leaving home. One girl friend, Foxx assures the boy, would end up like her mother, "King Kong in bloomers." He is constantly complaining about his nonexistent...
...this dude in the front seat is playing it smart and he don't say nothin' and they're cruising on back to the station. And Chick he says...
...telling me, ME to get out of mytruck?' We could smell his breath way back in the cop car. So this dude starts leaning forward across his belly and looking real clear at the depty who's doing all the talking and starts wavin' the shotgun around his finger-like it's a fuckin' toothpick, man--and the deputy is a little skinny guy whose uniform is all trim and tucked and he says...
...boards, the old trouper instructed both in the rhythm and techniques of ragtime. Says Jones: "She conducted me, forced me to play it as she remembered Joplin. With a nod and her voice, she taught me what Joplin himself sounded like." She also taught Ostlere dances like the Dude Walk and Back Step Prance...
...concert, I agree the Riders were superfluous, but the Dead are still the only group who give you your money's worth at a concert. Five, six, seven hours of listening to Garcia and watching that good-lookin' dude Pigpen--who could ask for more? Especially with Godcheaux, who really fills out their sound well--a welcome addition indeed. After the concert, there are some pretty great tapes about that the Dead have let circulate, which is much more than I can say for most groups...