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...implication is that Dewey, now his full-time manager, believed Petey could be turned into a stand-up comic, a black guy spouting one-liners designed to titillate a white audience suddenly attuned to the black outrage they had never before heard. That, however, was not Petey. And he knew it. He could talk fast, all right, but he was at heart a free-associating yarn spinner, a man who had to establish his own rhythms, not live by those of other people. He was never going to be Richard Pryor. Or Nipsey Russell...
...hysterically greeted concert tour that justifies all the hard times we have endured with our hero or heroine? It's only later, as you think the movie over - and it does stay with you - that you realize it has kept faith with the essential Petey Greene, a man who knew his limits and was determined to live within them. Contra movie conventions, life does not always - make that "usually" - offer us unambiguous success. If we're lucky, we get what Petey got - a few good years, a chance to do some decent work, the nostalgic affection of an ever-dwindling...
...knew that my parents, as Jews and citizens under the Communist government, had a difficult time in Romania, and I knew I couldn’t compare their childhood to my trip. Yet I couldn’t help enjoying myself. Perhaps I had underestimated Romania...
...Musharraf knew he was playing with fire by attacking a mosque and risking civilian casualties. The authorities weren't saying how many noncombatants had been killed, but, given the vicious, close-quarter fighting and the thousands of students, including women and children, inside the complex, the miracle was that more people...
...particular he championed the groundbreaking work of Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, photographers who, as he wrote, had turned documentary photography "toward more personal ends." He once compared camera art simply to "the act of pointing." He pointed, too, expertly, to pictures that he knew the world should know about...