Word: asse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed a policeman who was on horseback, and the only path he could clear for us through the crowd was on cobblestones on the trolley track. We ran the last six miles over cobblestone following a horse's ass," he said, adding that he ran in "one dollar sneakers with 15 cent inner soles because there were no running shoes back then...
...obviously places the characters within a larger, moralistic framework, yet one senses that this ostensible structure lacks the same direction or definition that the characters themselves have. Nelson criticizes both the cultural and educational systems which reinforce the widespread abuse of drugs; yet for Benji, the self-proclaimed "lonesome ass," the hallucinogenic world into which he throws himself seems almost a welcome contrast to the emptiness of his ghetto life...
...feelings and energies that circulated in the '50s. The music is quite good, and Chuck Berry's renditions of "Reelin' and Rockin'" and "Roll Over Beethoven" are worth the cost of the ticket. When I'm as old as he is I want to be able to shake my ass and rock out like that...
...Alpine Rescue Team, a rock-climber rescue group Jim joined in the spring of his sophomore year. "It was really neat stuff. Neat equipment to work with, and it's really slick to pull someone off the rock. It's a gas to be hanging out there, with your ass over everything. You're all roped in, so nothing's going to happen to you, and it looks cooler than hell...
...While you sit on your ass making the revolution, I'm out there in the kitchen like a slavey. What we need is a revolution in this house. " The author acknowledges that her book grew out of her own intense commitment to feminism. Until the late '60s, she says portentously, "I was profoundly depoliticized, unable to see my own image reflected in the history of my times." As reflected in The Romance of American Communism, that image is sympathetic, generous but not clearly focused. She takes the complexities of idealism and motivation and submerges them into a provocative...