Word: mamet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wits like Fred Harris and Mo Udall and Bob Dole. Business leaders and college presidents--they're not funny. Being funny is not even the way certified funny people get ahead. Robin Williams won his Oscar for one of his suffering-psychiatrist parts. Steve Martin now works with David Mamet...
...What the woman says is exactly as correct as what the man says," Mamet said. "The viewer should look at the herd mentality, the clumping together of higher education, and say, 'What is going on here...
...working person has the right to organize," said Mamet, whose father was a labor lawyer. "Because if they don't, they're going to get screwed...
...Jimmy Hoffa took [hold of] the Teamsters who took the American worker into the middle class," Mamet said. "For a brief period of time, the working class had the power of collective bargaining...
Students, who said they liked Mamet's talk, laughed frequently and heartily applauded...