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...Clay's comedy, woman is only a sexual convenience, a sentimental slag, a "dishrag hoo-er." For him, all romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there...
Earth Day 1990 is destined to follow the new tradition of Live Aid, Sport Aid and Band Aid: it will appeal to the abbreviated American attention span $ with a huge 24-hour dose of stunts, palaver and celebrity hoo-ha. But the environmental movement will be able to survive its commercial mugging, dust itself off and plod forward toward its goal of a cleaner planet. For Earth Day is merely marginal, a loud fashion statement for a quiet revolution in American life. From East Los Angeles to Taylor, N.Y., the morning after Earth Day will find millions of ordinary environmentalists...
...hoo--I mock you. You should feel guilty, embarrassed...
...Maurice Hoo, one of two members of theCoalition for Diversity who were given reservedseats on the student dean search committee, saidthat the committee had been "distracted" by allthe controversy surrounding its membership...
...There has been little discussion about itwithin the committee," Hoo said. "We have beenbusy compiling the students' surveys. Besides,that's not what we are here for. We haven't beengiven any trouble...