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...prove he's a comedian by telling a joke, Ahmed responds: "Um, I just graduated from flight school?" When that joke bombs (sorry!), he consoles himself with the thought of how frustrated the other Ahmed must get when people mistake him for a comedian. "I'm a terrorist, goddamit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laughing All the Way to the (West) Bank | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

...point, Maya Angelou enjoys the unique experience of meeting Billie Holiday and even singing for Lady Day. Billie invites herself to Angelou's nightclub act and in the middle of the set begins to scream. "Stop that bitch. Stop her, goddamit. Stop that bitch. She sounds just like my goddam Mamma." When Angelou confronts Billie for interrupting her song, she is told that all Black women sing alike--a mold Billie tried to break. But there is no exploration of why the connection between Black women, particularly mothers, would incite such rage in Billie Holiday. Once the anguish is presented...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: No Excuses | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...else, unaware that the assailant was a woman. San Francisco Policemen Timothy Hettrich and Gary Lemos dove at Moore, knocking her to the ground. Hettrich grabbed the cylinder of the revolver so that it could not turn and bring up another bullet. Patrolman William S. Taylor grabbed her hair. "Goddamit! Goddamit!" one officer shouted as he pounded on her back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...bosses; A City on a Hill never directly presents the man Cavanaugh's boss wants to make president. Keeping within his narrow limits, Higgins manages to smooth his way past the improbability of a second-term Cape-Cod congressman's launching a serious, self-confident ("get me a president, goddamit") drive to be kingmaker...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: A Case of Overhearing | 4/17/1975 | See Source »

...Cambridge. Even the summer school students, who bounced in full of summertime excitement, money and curiosity, wilted when the thermometer hit 99. For half the summer, Crimson staffers tried to think of new and imaginative ways to make the weather slug say, "It will be raining again goddamit." The rest of the summer our problem was getting the papers delivered before they melted...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: What Cambridge Did On Your Summer Vacation | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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