Word: ahem
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...Ahem, I've just discovered the most extraordinary thing about myself." So now she would be sitting down there next to Steve Lundquist, the white-blond gold-medalist swimmer...
...solemn annual duty of film critics to explain why some feckless movie like Animal House or Caddyshack, Stripes or Porky's is, ahem, not really a very distinguished work. And perhaps express concern for the fate of American thought and culture when such films achieve blinding commercial success. The shame of the nation this year is Police Academy...
...lists, constantly made time-consuming errors in bibliographical listings constantly made written assignments on reading that had been read for discussions of the week before. Thus students had to double read for the purposes of the belated paper assignment. Oh yes, duplicated effort was part of the plan why--ahem, ahem--whenever has it hurt a student to read his material twice? Better yet, why read it, just throw a little bull and wait to find out what you really have to study. When questioned these insecure graduate students can always justify, endlessly nationalize, manufacture new faults, and take personal...
...Linda Segal, are about lovable losers--lonely, touchingly inarticulate little people. In the Wilson play, the latest in his line of vulnerable hookers concludes that "There are two kinds of people in this world: the eaters and the eaten." She and her mother--another long-abused lady--have been, ahem, the eaten, and the play ends as they escape from the carnivores to a little house by the sea. In the Segal play the vulnerable, long-abused whore is also a baker, so her version goes, "There are two kinds of cookies: cookie-pressed and free-form." So she escapes...
...Track and Field News organized a race for American tourists on a 3 ½ -mile course along the river. I wanted to try, carrying my small American flag on a stick, like a baton, so that during the slightest lull in conversations in years to come, I could say, "Ahem, during the Moscow Olympics in '80, I want you to know that ... etc., etc." I did some jogging to prepare, getting up to run when the sun came through the lace curtains of my room in the Hotel Ukraine. Summer sunrise is very early in these latitudes...