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...ever wanted to be when I grew up was a pimp," Ice T said. "There was no other image in my mind that was fly. I didn't play basketball. We didn't know any lawyers, except the ones who kept us out of jail...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, | Title: Rapper Speaks At Law School | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...Tonto Silverado faces an uphill struggle with this brooding, intense character. As the central character, Vindice is less a striking caricature than a constant factor in the drama. But even Silverado gets a chance to produce a brief fantastic comic sketch like the others when Vindice impersonates an ingratiating pimp...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Slap Me Some Skin and Bone | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

Hans Canosa: What fascinates me in his work is issues of--you know, Brustein always used to say excrementalism, that just means shit obviously--that fascinates me, the same way that Brecht in his early plays obsessed with images of shit and sex, and every sexual character was a pimp or a whore...the same thing with Strindberg where he's always talking about the dirt, rising out of the dirt...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Interpretations of Hans Canosa: Talking Theater With a Student Director | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...into retirement -- and he may have been right. In 1965 Mao decided Liu "had to go." The weapon he chose was the Cultural Revolution, "a revolution against his own revolution." It was conducted by his harridan wife Jiang Qing and plotted by his favorite ideologist, security specialist and pimp, Kang Sheng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Drugs and Mao Zedong | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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