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When he talks about whites, Pryor possessed by Richard Pryor-can be almost as lethal as "Big Daddy." In the U.S., he says, "they give niggers time as if they were giving lunch. You go [to court] looking for justice, and that's just what you find -just us." On his album Bicentennial Nigger he says, "We're celebrating 200 years of white folks kicking ass... You all probably have forgotten about it. Well, I ain't never gonna forget...
...York, his existence is a chilling reality, terrifying hundreds of thousands of young women in and around the city, enraging public officials, and both fascinating and frustrating one of the nation's most sophisticated police forces. The elusive "Son of Sam," who skillfully wields a lethal .44-cal. Bulldog revolver, struck for the eighth time last week, slaying Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and blinding Robert Violante, also 20, as the two sat in a parked car at 2:35 a.m. and watched a full moon illuminate Brooklyn's Gravesend...
...patients died (TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant extract used by South American Indians to tip their poison arrows...
Kahn's idea is a simple one: although baseball is a game, not everyone plays it the same way. Of course, baseball is Jackie Robinson stealing home in a thunder of lethal spikes and cheery abandon, it is Joe DiMaggio gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards...
...possibility of lives being lengthened by surgery should be assessed, but often analysis of the future quality of life is necessary in non-lethal cases, he said...