Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vehemently anti-dope, condoning the pathology of its hero and his commando blitzkriegs on the dope dealers with the self-righteous pragmatism common to pulp fiction. Anyone who can see beyond this, or below it, will catch a smooth performance by Williams and a funny, skittish performance by Richard Pryor, as one of Williams' recruits. Pryor's humor pierces through his characterization to mock the whole movie with energy and finesse...
Some six years after Watts went up in flames, the racial wounds still ache. "I been down so long," one black man says, "the thought of getting up never even entered my mind." Stuart links Wattstax together with some hilarious monologues by Comic Richard Pryor, who wrings laughs from such shared frustration and humiliation. His stories of everyday hassling, of being regularly rousted by the cops, are spun out in street jargon with a kind of furious cool. What makes the jokes sting is not punch lines but lethal accuracy...
...downbeat Funny Girl. Besides dispensing her styrene vocals, Miss Ross is also called upon to do a great deal of acting. In every reel, there is at least one sequence of turbulent anguish: Billie battling with her pusher; Billie in a padded cell; Billie watching her piano player (Richard Pryor) get beaten to death; Billie pleading for understanding and indulgence from her lover (Billy Dee Williams). Actress Ross attacks each of these crises in the same way-by raising her voice and gesticulating wildly, occasionally clutching at her hair. No one can fault her vigor and volume, but she never...
...Cecelia Pryor and James Johnson will perform original rock music, assisted by 15 musicians, at midnight tonight at the First Church in Cambridge. Student admission is $2 and general admission...
...other government officials also helped to promote the 1959 federal statute known popularly as the "Wild Horse Annie Law," which prohibits the hunting of wild horses from airplanes or other motorized vehicles on the public domain. In addition, Annie's lobbying helped establish wild-horse sanctuaries in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming and at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada...