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...Vegas, moved to Berkeley, Calif., and began talking about the things that mattered to him: race (assaulting the audience with the once taboo word nigger), sex and his own colorful, often tumultuous life. He re-created the street characters--winos, pimps, junkies--he had grown up with in the Peoria, Ill., ghetto, where his grandmother ran whorehouses. And he dragged the culture along with him. His comedy albums--starting with his 1974 masterpiece That Nigger's Crazy--were best sellers and won five Grammys. He pioneered a new genre, the feature-length comedy concert, with his 1979 film Richard Pryor...
...knew exactly what he was doing with his campaign of innuendo and rumor. Unfortunately, somebody else is going to end up taking the fall for Rove's vindictiveness. Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser. Jennifer Denny Peoria, Illinois...
...knew exactly what he was doing with his campaign of innuendo and rumor. Unfortunately, somebody else is going to end up taking the fall for Rove's vindictiveness. Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser. Jennifer Denny Peoria, Illinois, U.S. The media are making the Plame case far too complicated. Bush can no more fire Rove than dummy Charlie McCarthy could fire ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Edmund C. Valentine Wabasso, Florida, U.S. This entire affair reminds me too much of typical middle school-clique in-fighting - except that...
JENNIFER DENNY - Peoria...
Jesse Jackson thought he was a sly one getting to see Gorbachev during the summit to show the world that some Americans oppose Reagan's arms buildup. That was probably a hit in Minsk. In Peoria, however, such a cute maneuver probably kindled resentment against both Jackson and Gorbachev...