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...Lenny Bruce, the pioneer of Savonarola satire, and Pryor's only true antecedent-profanity serves to give both a salty rhythm to his sentences and a Joy Buzzer shock to his more refeened listeners. It remains for his fearless comic acuity to tell him precisely how much gutter imagery his audience can take. As box office returns show, more and more moviegoers are taking him in huge, healthy doses. Pryor has always been big with the hip and in Harlem. Now he knows his comedy can play in Peoria...
...starting spot, currently leads the nation in save percentage, with a mark of 921. And his ECAC goals-against average is the league's best. The team leader in spirit--as in cheap shots--and scoring is senior center Roy Kerling (18-21-39) the East's top point-gutter in league play...
Thus matters stood last week: Coppola hurtling through space with the Zoetrope mortgage in his teeth as 6,000 New Yorkers-1,000 freebies and 5,000 paid-squelched through hock-deep gutter slush into the theater. There was a satisfactory array of the famous on hand, and the famous-for-being-famous, somewhat too swaddled against the cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before...
Among the many candles that have been lighted in honor of the free Polish spirit, Man of Marble and Man of Iron seem to be the least likely to gutter out as time goes on. It is possible, in fact, that these films of Wajda's (who last week was still reported under arrest in Poland, along with other artists and intellectuals) may become perpetual flames in the perpetual struggle against tyranny...
...Krulick reflect on their six-year career on the Cambridge circuit. "We can get away with a lot of stuff here that just wouldn't work anywhere else because of generally limited vocabularies." Aveson says. "Quite true," adds his partner, "This is without a doubt the top of the gutter." Despite a penchant for one-liners and their unusual appearance--Aveson wears most of a tuxedo; Krulick sports dungarees, a baseball shirt, and a cap labeled "Shakespeare"--the duo takes performing seriously. "There are no admissions and no boundaries, so we can be funny and say things that are meaningful...