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...Democrats scored only one major Senate victory yesterday, when Arkansas voters unseated Republican incumbent Sen. Tim Hutchinson in favor of Democratic challenger Mark Pryor, the son of former Institute of Politics Director David H. Pryor...
George Carlin, he says, "made the language his personal puppet. He took words and phrases and sliced them eight different ways." Richard Pryor, he says, was perhaps the greatest artist of all stand-ups; his stories had beautiful and elaborate structures. Seeing both Carlin and Pryor onscreen, though, you feel the anger simmering beneath their routines. Stand-ups have a quarrel with the universe, a chip on their shoulder that they turn into comedy. "Stand-up is socialized aggression," says...
...People say that Pryor at his peak was the best there ever was," Seinfeld says, "but Bill Cosby is just as good." He doesn't get the credit, Seinfeld says, "because he's not as dark." Darkness, he says, makes you sexier. At this point, Seinfeld is interrupted when a senior ladies group from Long Beach, Long Island, on a tour of the museum, spy him. Three gray-haired women surround him, practically pinching his cheek. One says, "Jerry, I watch your show all the time, but it's too late, 11 o'clock." "Then watch...
Both candidates come from prominent political families. Pryor's father David was a beloved Senator, who remains so popular that even Hutchinson calls him a "beautiful model for being kind and gentlemanly in a way that Arkansans appreciate." Mark Pryor, for his part, snarls that "there are not many similarities between Tim Hutchinson and David Pryor." Hutchinson's brother Asa was a popular Congressman and now heads Bush's Drug Enforcement Administration...
...Pryor has managed to neutralize Iraq as an issue, saying he supports the President. That lets him concentrate on pocketbook issues in a state that, like much of the country, is feeling some pain. "The economy bothers me," says waitress Melissa Hart, as she serves up a foot-long chili dog at Town Pump, a Little Rock suds-and-sandwich shop. "It is sucking. And we need some change." That kind of attitude puts Hutchinson in a bind. Pryor notes, for instance, that the Republican has repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage. Hutchinson counters that expanding the earned-income...