Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...darkened set. "I sneaked back," she recalls, "to the place where I had spent four years of my life. I walked around, rubbed the couch where I had sat dozens of times and spotted that cookie jar shaped like a pumpkin. The stagehands keep it filled with real junk food - Oreos, Lorna Doones, the kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell. We'd say, 'Oh, wow!' then...
...most tiresome features of the anthropological and popular front documentaries of another time. Beethoven's Fifth provides the musical score, Elliott himself the pompous narration, holding together shots of the ceremony itself, African puberty rituals and Nazis on the march-all pottily proving that little Bernie Farber, the junk dealer's son, stands at the confluence of mighty historical forces...
Just remember, there's a reason that none of the groups who prey upon you attack upperclassmen as openly and directly. Don't be suckered into buying a lot of junk...
Bruce's routines tapped the ghetto idiom and jazz slang of the fifties black jazz musicians with whom he gigged, scored junk and shot up. He mined the radio shows and grade B movies of the thirties and forties to forge his early mordant satires. Finally, Bruce found his most comprehensive metaphor for human experience in the hustling world of show business itself. As Goldman reconstructs and distills the creative process, Bruce's greatest work would invariably pose the question...
...court to court he began ranting about things like due process and the First Amendment. It was not so much that his last performances were charged with an almost unbearably maddened bitterness but that these legal raps were boring. The pressures of official harassment, massive quantities of speed and junk, and his own psychoses and self-absorption squeezed the living juices out of Lenny Bruce. He lost his audience and most of his friends. Then the madman died...