Word: asse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ASS WAGGING IN Brooklyn garbage and a bopping Elton John soundtrack open Sidney Lumet's overexcited mongrel of a film about a bank robbery. A high-spirited, sporadically funny film about a trivial event, Dog Day Afternoon is at odds with itself. Its mixed parentage--one part action shoot-out, one part ethnic sit-com, and two parts documentary--makes it an entertaining enough mutt, but hard to control. It wanders in several directions at once and over-whelms its charming moments in tedious incoherence...
...mind when he left Newsweek to found his own weekly paper in Los Angeles--a paper that folded after only five months. "The paper was the first thing I'd failed at," Fleming says, his smooth, self-confident manners breaking momentarily. "Knocked me right on my ass--this being a society which doesn't look too kindly on failure...
...year period. Most frequently, Reith's targets were people who stood between him and the pinnacles of power that he thought were his natural habitat. His first run-ins were with the BBC board of governors. He dismissed Lord Clarendon, the first chairman, as "a stupid ass" and Board Member Mrs. Ethel Snowden as "a truly terrible creature...
...social level, the ex-colony's semi-Westernization has left it with some anomalies: tribesmen clad only in "ass grass" (leaves fore and aft hanging from a bark belt) push shopping carts in supermarkets, and spear-carrying warriors in the hills go into their occasional battles with blaring transistor radios strapped to their bodies. On a political level, the latest fad is independence-and not just from Australia. Prime Minister Somare's new government is already plagued by two separatist movements...
...kept cursing me and said he was going to whip my ass," asserted South Carolina Patrolman J.R. Swicher, after charging Poet James Dickey with drunken driving and disorderly conduct. The author of the riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars...