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...bunch of mean muthas break down doors, dismantle fire escapes, throw people off balconies-and these are the good guys. They are the drivers for the D.C. Cab Co. One black dude (Charlie Barnett) gets scared and screams, "I'm goin' to nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Santa's Mixed Bag of Celluloid | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...demonstration in his defense, a man on crutches supported the usage, citing other contexts where "cripple" is benign. True enough. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz forced himself out of the Ford Administration by telling a cruel and tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating self-mocking black stereotypes. Context seems all, or much at any rate. One might imagine the comedy team of Butz and Watt barnstorming America hearing nary a titter in places where Amos 'n' Andy brought down the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Reagan is Funny and Watt Not | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...highway was swirling with white and yellow clouds of smoke, raging with the cries of men. Choking, bleeding, the Negroes fled in all directions while the whites pursued them. The mounted men uncoiled bull whips and lashed out viciously as the horses' hoofs trampled the fallen. "O.K., nigger!" snarled a posseman, flailing away at a running Negro woman. "You wanted to march-now march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION 1965: CIVIL RIGHTS The Central Point | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided to build a pair of wings and fly over a nearby body of water called Ezra Pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh track | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...smoke, drink or use drugs, and even after he hit it big on SNL, he continued to live in his suburban home with his mother, stepfather and half brother Vernon Jr., 16. "Being black has never been a hindrance to me," Murphy says. "I've been called 'nigger' only once in my life. There's very little anger in my humor." Pryor's movie characters show the resentment and vulnerability of the underdog; Eddie, in front of the cameras or away from them, is a hot dog, full of sass and guileless assurance. The Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Good Little Bad Little Boy | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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