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...holds-barred comedy was matched by a private life that seemed an unending soap opera--outbursts of violence, run-ins with the law, and drug abuse that culminated in 1980, at the height of his freebasing years, when he set himself on fire and nearly died. All of which, remarkably, became fodder for his stand-up. "You know something I found out?" he said of his self-immolation. "When you're on fire and running down the street, people get out of your way." Multiple sclerosis, diagnosed in 1985, all but silenced him in his later years. But his ruthless...
...height of the Vietnam War, Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about littering. The song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” tells the story of a young man who is called before the draft board only to discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes...
...Freshmen forwards Katie Rollins, Liz Tindal, and Niki Finelli, who have battled injuries all season, filled out the rest of the team’s unfortunate jumpsuit brigade. “NO CONFIDENCE” At 2-4, the Crimson has not reached the heights that observers expected its talent would take it. More puzzling is the fact that the team has played extremely well in two dominant wins against Alabama State and Rhode Island, and in a six-point loss at UVA last weekend. “I have no idea,” Delaney-Smith said...
...eyes swivel towards the “fine, strapping, muscular young fellow”—and then, a burst of unscripted laughter. Gilbert and Sullivan might have intended Robin to be a mast-like man among men—but apart from his height, the thin and artsy-looking Morris doesn’t quite fit the bill.He manages to remain in character and swagger a little, puffing up his chest as he smugly replies, “I know well enough that few men are better calculated to win a woman’s heart than...
WHEN RINALDO PIAGGIO founded his factory in 1884 at the height of the Belle Epoque, world travel was booming, so ocean-liner fittings naturally were a no-brainer. Soon Piaggio was outfitting luxury trains and car engines too. But when World War II began, he shifted his business to passenger airplanes and bombers?a risky move, because the military importance of his factory made it a prime target. Piaggio's outfit was bombed, and the family lost everything. It wasn't until Rinaldo's son Enrico took over after the war that the Vespa was born...