Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down his back six months ago in the form of a heart attack. Now, after three nights of sold-out adulation and guffaw at Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, he leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...
...Dated? For me, dated is when the stuff doesn't make people laugh anymore. If you identify the comedy with those times, then it's dated for you. But people still think 'Filthy Words' is funny...
Carlins's mother bought him a tape recorder when he was in the eighth grade and he started recording short comical skits--"news, sports, all the stuff that established my comedy"--and visions of radio and music and discjockey slick distracted Carlin from his studies. He eventually quit school...
...stuff of George Carlin's comedy is words. He makes them sound important as he says them, but more importantly, his comedy reveals words for what they are--artificial symbols for items and concepts that exist in reality. Like fantasies, words are creations of the human mind; if there were no human minds, there would be no words...
...proper protocol for Michael to concede first before he says anything." All those first names, the concern with protocol--this was hardly the lockerroom talk you'd expect from the staff of a football player with a reputation for late hits. But then, neither was all that stuff about Dukakis conceding, especially at 10:30 on a primary evening. The press trailer was obviously the place...