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...Ethnic Grist. Still, Cosby's material has a blackness all its own. All ghetto humor is basically ethnic. U.S. minorities have traditionally preserved their identities by laughing at their origins. Cosby's North Philadelphia is as rich in ethnic grist as Manhattan's Lower East Side was for a generation of Jewish comedians. Consciously or not, there is a deeper facet of Negro heritage in Cosby: his penchant for outrageous hyperbole. When one of his TV pupils asks "Chet Kincaid" (Cosby) why he must take gym, he hears: " 'Cause you got to get in shape...
...Taylor cheats on his wife. Mr. Harper is a drunk. Widow Jones cavorts without pulling down her window shades. It would all be everyday grist for Peyton Place but, blaring out of radios and jukeboxes, this titillating recital is selling 3,000,000 records. It is Harper Valley P.T.A., a thumping, country-flavored song about a smalltown widow. Her high skirts and low life are criticized by the P.T.A. at her teen-age daughter's school. She storms into the P.T.A. meeting and graphically exposes the membership as a bunch of hypocrites...
When Lyndon Johnson retreats to his Texas ranch and his reflections next January, he will carry with him the most exhaustive record of a presidency ever compiled. As grist for a planned treatise on his life in politics of from three to four volumes, he has a lode of documents that already overflows 8,000 filing-cabinet drawers. Perhaps because he has always been mistrustful of how others may interpret his stewardship, Johnson has been a kind of auto-Bos-well, chronicling virtually his every waking minute in the White House...
...profession of the fornicatrix has fallen upon seedy days. Rank amateurs have driven out the pros, giving the career field a bad name, and today's courtesans would rather provide grist for the sociologist's mill than salt for the Sunday supplements...
...seems particularly unexotic if one has come fresh from hearing him read poems about bestiality ("The Sheep Child"), voyeurism and sexual assault ("The Fiend"), the bombing of civilians ("The Firebombing"), and adultery ("Adultery"). "Nothing is excluded from the poetic conscioueness," Dickey proclaims. "Anything that happens to your mind is grist for your mill...