Word: assed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the counter: Ezekiel in the valley of the dry bones, you've red it, I know you have, how the Lord told Ezekiel to speak and then Ezekiel he spoke and the bones took on sinew and the bones took on flesh. Or the tale of Balaam's ass. Or about the devil going to and fro in the earth: Yessir the devil is goin to and fro making his work. Making the work of hell...
...back about five years ago I started riding horses out on the outskirts of town. Then I weighed around 118-122, and I got to be a pretty good quarterhorse rider. I'd go around, and when you didn't have nothing you'd have to kiss a lotta ass and be nice and ask if you could ride their horses in races and things like that. After a while, it wasn't so difficult to ask. And now I've got my own colt, since I got a free stud service from a quarterhorse champion for my ridin services...
...seem glossed over as insignificant in this film, rather than abused as in Last Tango in Paris. Verbal images of life and death in Partner are almost as ridiculous as in Last Tango. Any suggestions that Marlon Brando alone was responsible for writing his speech about going "through the ass of death, right up into the womb of fear" are dispelled by Partner, where Clementi speaks of life as an "echo resounding between the sperm and the shit of the world...
...that he was still leading the nation. He startled HEW officials by insisting on rushing an education message to Congress before his State of the Union message, which will be delivered this week. "It was just chaos, really," said one HEW source. "You wouldn't believe the wild-ass way this was developed." Perhaps as a result, the message contained nothing substantively new. Yet while the White House was preoccupied with showing Nixon in motion, it failed to lobby effectively on its foreign aid bill. The House voted 248 to 155 to kill the Administration's proposed contribution...
...about the low-level gangster's underworld of Boston--of petty cooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster's game--and of the dreams that keep them going, the Florida vacation or the hot piece of ass. It's an honest movie, true clean through to the crooked tale it tells...