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...court, Robinson was arrested, then released and given a hero's welcome at his office. The sheriff trades heavily on his good ole boy charm, stumping hard in rural areas and bellowing, "The Republicans can call me a cowboy, or they can call me Sue, but they are fixin' to get a tiger in their tails like they've never had before...
...minimum wage, which went from $2.65 to $2.90 on Jan. 1. Higher fuel prices and gasoline shortages may also hurt the chains because people will be less inclined to drive out for a meal. Indeed there has been a quick rise in supermarket sales of fast-food fixin's to prepare at home...
...anyway, where were we? Oh yeah. So Joe's fixin' to leave, and go see some movies or somethin', but before he does, he's gotta say a few things--part of his job I guess--about the league's powers, Yale and Brown...
...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...
They were Bell: self-described sleep-eyes cowlicky, lanky, lefty country boy, Marxist from east Kentucky. He was ugly, but endearingly ugly, with black hair that flopped over his ears and into his eyes. He always looked wet, and fixin' to die from pleurisy and lung concer from the Lucky Strike that was always in the corner of his mouth. Like a big bedraggled hairy bassett hound, with great hazel eyes and a wet nose. He wore a coat he's finagled from the Freshman Coat Fund two winters ago, or a corduroy jacket he'd bought second-hand, levis...