Word: asse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawrence Hogan, the first Republican on the Judiciary Committee to announce that he would vote for impeachment. Hogan got a raspberry when he came onto the House floor after making his announcement. One Republican cried, "We're going to take up a collection to beat Hogan's ass!" Rhodes realizes that such anger could mortally damage the party, and he is doing everything he can to contain it. "I'm going to be a [Red Cross] corpsman," he says of his role in the weeks ahead, "and stanch the flow of blood...
...FILM is further disjointed by a huge block of time spent on a caricature of a superpig Fascist, Spatoletti, who patronizes Salome, calling her his "golden ass." Images pile on top of images--Spatoletti's round head sheathed in a leather motorcycle cap; his high black boots and fisheye goggles; a demonic grimace; an imperial pose in the arms of an ice-blue marble statue eerily lit at night; an encounter with a peasant who lost two fingers to Spatoletti's knife and now jokes nervously, "I make the sign of the cuckhold when I salute Il Duce." Wertmuller...
...thinking of very key [unintelligible] people like--that worked their ass off collecting money, just to say that--people that--the people that are doing the work--very key political [unintelligible] just to pat them on the back. I mean that means a helluva lot--very key political VIPs, you know, by political VIPs--ah [unintelligible] just get the South get a better [unintelligible]. Our problem is that there are only two men in this place that really give us names--that's Rose the other is Colson, and we just aren't getting them. But I mean...
...Religious leaders [unintelligible] say something. You gotta be careful some ass over in [unintelligible]. He just doesn't really have his head screwed on, Bob. I could see it in that meeting yesterday. He does...
...this way the romantic prose be comes reality, and a necessary part of this reality, Kundera cheerfully demonstrates, is that the poet be an utter ass...