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...lessee. Yeah. Richard Pryor, he spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an-OOO-EE!-next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard-name's Leroy Jones in duh movie-rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine...
...yassuh-massuh and lay on the Virginia ham as though the camera were 30 rows away. What's more, Scenarist Davis plays up to the white folks as often as he beats them down. The side characters are sarcastic caricatures of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom and any old suth'n cunnel (Sorrell Booke); the hero is a big-mouthed burlesque of Dr. Martin Luther King. Nevertheless, every third line sinks in like a needle-not so deep it draws blood but deep enough to get under a white man's skin...
Into all this, Williams has injected much enlivening comedy-now in terms of character (the bride can be wonderfully, Williamsly Suth'n), now in terms of situation, now of talk. Moreover-which is the play's new wrinkle, the key to its change of key-Williams is suggesting that, far from so many people having hideous lives and fates, most people really needn't suffer from even the milder, more widespread afflictions. He has called off the bloodhounds at last, and would simply have people try harder to cooperate and understand...
...United Sates intervention in their internal affairs, and from a disbelief that Communism is really a threat to the Western Hemisphere. But the United States could stifle these objections. By using economic aid as a lever, it could force the delegates to pass the resolution as put forth. Suth pressure, however, would embitter the latin-American nations, and defeat any hope for increased cooperation...
Chilled by Italy's rains, the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Montgomery last week asked London for waterproofed pants and jacket. The package was made up, sent. Its custodian: the Bishop of Southwark (pronounced suth'-erk), beginning a tour of military stations. But ahead went a message to "Monty" from Lieut. General A. E. Nye, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...