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...mean anything to black America, which is still under assault from the social practices of this society." Bill Cosby's criticisms of black parenting? "A billionaire attacking poor people for being poor. Bill Cosby is a clown. What do you expect? I thought it was unfair of him." His modest, soft-spoken manner belies what is obviously a deep sense of grievance. He describes sitting down at a counter not long ago and watching a white man next to him snatch $2 off the table. "He thinks I'm going to steal his $2. That's reality; that...
...boxer on The Hitter who passes his estranged ma's house one night and mumbles, "I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile/ Just open the door and let me lie down for a while," and the quixotic lover of All the Way Home, whose modest flirtation at last call amounts to "Maybe your first choice he's gone," suffer from near fatal cases of beautiful loser-itis. When Springsteen shifts into reportage, his details--the way turtles eat the skin from the corpse's eyes on Matamoros Banks, a prostitute's price for sex on Reno...
...Mann was modest in his assessment of the achievement...
...chief guardian of the Victa and Sunbeam brands today is Ian Campbell, managing director of GUD Holdings. The tall, trim Campbell has a modest office in Melbourne's western suburbs above a plant that once made Ryco oil filters for automobiles. But last month, after reducing his workforce from 600 six years ago to just 50, Campbell closed the factory. Ryco-brand products will now be made overseas. "The total cost of labor for a process worker is $A49,000 a year. In China, it's $A2,500 a year. Add the cost of shipping and other things...
...weekend dance showcase was to be the last staged at the modest Riemann Center, since the Dance Program deservedly received a four-million dollar endowment to build a new dance space. And the Dance Program waved farewell to the Riemann in style...