Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star, he awed classmates by pumping in 30 points a game and then hitting the library until midnight. As a Senator, he slightly unnerves some of his colleagues by relentlessly writing & in a small notebook that he keeps in his inside jacket pocket. "He watches you," says Senator David Pryor of Arkansas. "It's constant...
...ignited and smoked, free-basers wash a cocaine base with ether to clean out impurities. Once dried, the residue is heated with a torch and smoked. The extreme volatility of ether makes this a dangerous way to get high--as the general public learned in 1980 when Comedian Richard Pryor set himself on fire while free-basing...
...flap over Deaver may have more to do with what he represents than what he did. "He's just a symbol of what's wrong with our system," says Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas. "There's a sense we've all allowed this situation with lobbying fees, big-money elections and influence peddling to get out of control...
...hundred contentious spirits live inside Richard Pryor; Candide is not one of them. Yet that is the role he plays in this drably rouged-up autobiography, which he directed and co-wrote (with Rocco Urbisci and Paul Mooney). The contours of Pryor's misspent life are the same--raised in his grandma's $ brothel, early career working cheap nightclubs, a bunch of misunderstood and misunderstanding wives, championship bouts with alcohol and drugs leading to the final free-base conflagration--but the guts are missing. The comic here is a sweet-souled wimp: he uses a gun only in defense...
...sailors who competed for the Crimson were Gordon Burnes and Petra Schumann, Peter Wagner and Jeff Kurland, and John Pernick and Beth Pryor...