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...Yorkers start to cheer. Andrew Dice Clay tells jokes for a living -- dirty jokes, stag-party jokes, jokes designed to singe a churchgoer's soul and turn a feminist's stomach -- but he attracts crowds whose size and ardor would thrill a rock star. In sold-out Madison Square Garden, he looks like a samurai biker, with Brando's pout, Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like him and talk like...
...jokes. Yet some of the loudest laughter comes from women. Good sports at their own immolation, they giggle and groan along with their beaux. Perhaps proving they are tough is as important to them as it is to men. Others have found the spectacle less edifying. One woman at Madison Square Garden listened to Clay's sluice of abuse and said she felt like a Jew at the 1934 Nuremberg rally. Remember, she said, when pop culture was not naughty but nice...
...nearly 500 young black men and women have enlisted in McGee's militia, 60 of them students from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has become a hero to such youths because of his reputation for standing up to the white establishment. In the early 1970s he headed the Milwaukee chapter of the original Black Panthers. In 1984 he was elected to the city's Common Council, where he frequently resorts to theatrics to make a point. In 1988, for example, he wore a bag over his head in the council's annual group photograph. He and his followers...
...United Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!" In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah...
...Safire, as McCrary's majordomo, organized the "Draft Ike" rally at Madison Square Garden that helped persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for President...