Word: asse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about how, years before, he and his brother Jason conspired to kill their grandfather with a piece of breaded sole and become "accomplices forever." The old man is very much alive, of course; David lives with him still, until a message arrives from Jason in Atlantic City: "Get your ass down here. Our kingdom is come...
...were sitting up close to the action, so as not to miss a play, or even a signal. Trevor could pick them out by the crimson nylon jackets and the six packs of beer. He could hear them screaming lusty cheers: "Fuck em up. Fuck um up, Beat their ass!" He didn't remember football being quite like this back in Maine...
...overwhelming, but B.U. is hopelessly had. The Terriers might get up for the game, but after last week's fiasco against UMass. Harvard won't slouch on to the field. One Boston reporter commented, "After seeing Harvard lose to UMass, B.U.'s terrified that Harvard's gonna kick ass...
...early arguments with which Lucifer tries to wheedle power from God seem facile and merely clever, but toward the end he makes us question the justice of a God who, with full foreknowledge, tempts Cain to kill Abel. Played as a pretty-boy smart-ass by the top-billed Hal Holbrook, the Devil resembles a cross between a quick-talking, shifty-eyed lawyer and a slightly hip John Wayne. Holbrook appears appropriately serpentine even as he swaggers with self-esteem, but perhaps he could temper his over-confidence a little, considering he flubbed his lines at least three times...
...Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also suggested...