Word: mama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruiter requests to visit schools. Many black athletes have an added complaint: recruiters often act as if blacks are more susceptible than whites to under-the-table deals. "White coaches think that since most blacks are poor, we'll jump at the money," says Marvin Powell. " 'Your mama need help? Tell her not to worry,' they say." Says Moses Malone: " People who try to buy me make me very...
...driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...Three or four days later the last of the forged letters from "Alejandro" arrives for his mother. One of Alejandro's sisters opens it, and finds herself in tears. "She had been thinking," Cortazar writes bemusedly, "about how she was going to break the news to Alejandro that Mama was dead...
Probably the prime reason for the La Mama troupe's superb coordination is that many members of the group have been together with the director, John Vaccaro, for the past nine years. The company performing at the Loeb is one of three resident companies spawned by the original off-Broadway La Mama troupe, one of the consistently innovative forces in New York theater since its inception on a shoe-string budget nine years...
...have it: Riggs parrots stinging lines for fast money and vast attention, and makes himself a victim of his own villainous cause. He played darling devil's dare to the Women's Cause, and set them up as its defenders. It's like the sneaky fox who sets Mama lion raging in her lair. The anti-hero teases the hero into vengeance. And so Billy Jean King, like any American hero, could do what she had to do with justice on her side...