Word: assed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Pete Stovell perhaps summarized the change best: "Last year, we had so much talent that we knew we could play half-ass most of the time and win. This year we know we have to work our butts off for everything...
Sinead shifts gears and plays Big Band crooner on "Secret Love" and kicks Harry Connick Jr.'s ass. Unfortunately, she is not as successful with "Black Coffee," a blues/jazz lament. Lines like "Woman's born to weep and fret/ To stay at home and tend her oven/And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarrettes" are delivered without irony, which is as shame since O'Connor doesn't believe this song and it shows...
Looking me in the eyes and saying that people from cities just can't understand, Bray says, "Hard to wipe your ass with the spotted owl, huh Michelle...
...several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang project...
...infotainment press is busy stoking the one-way feud. In April, just before Leno replaced Carson, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story with Hall proclaiming, "I'm gonna kick Leno's ass"; this week the cover copy blares LENO GETS EVEN, and the Gibraltar-jawed comic stares out in a Raging Bull pose. The Washington Post's Tom Shales rags Leno for going "all ponderous and ! stony" and, bizarrely, for overloading his opening monologue with political humor. (Memo to Jay: Better do more 7-Eleven jokes. Memo to Tom: Pssst, it's an election year...