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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLD IRON by Robert Stone Pryor. 145 pages. McCall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nom de Plume | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...black without being racial. Like Cosby, he tends to narrative rather than one-liners. His harridan housewife who swears to her hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson, who takes a gently self-mocking, cerebral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Communicating with Laughter | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...purpose and origin of the poll are a total mystery. The return address on the questionnaire is a box in the Minneapolis main post office. There is no telephone listing there for anything called "National Campus Poll"; someone named E. W. Pryor, who signed the letter accompanying the questionnaire, is not listed there either...

Author: By Jeremy S. Bluhm, | Title: Elusive Pollsters Promise Dollars | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

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