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...group shares his insight, but some will not or cannot benefit by it. A black girl, defiantly defensive, insists in a tantrum that she once tried to get close to her father, failed, and now will just go on "kissing his ass." The film ends with a shot of her head resting on the shoulder of a companion, face turned away from the rest of the group...
...raised in Michigan, Scott spent much of his childhood "being terrified of my father." Scott's father, George D., was a coal mine surveyor when the Depression shut down most of the mines in the area. He moved his family to Pontiac, Mich., where, he brags, "I worked my ass off and the family never missed a meal. It was drive, drive, drive." Scott's mother Helen (called "Honey") was an elocutionist who gave public poetry readings and occasionally contributed verse to the local papers. She spent hours teaching her son how to read stories aloud. "I have very powerful...
...afterwards slipping into her leather culottes. And you still feel tired out even passing a little group of dancers sipping a vegetarian brew in the gym office. And you still even feel pleased, but you really wonder if it will last, when, for sure, you'll fall on your ass on the ice, running home...
...right?" The sweeping and angry protests of the Cambodian spring, the resolute demands and plans for restructuring the universities, and the energies expended on getting out the vote?all such events are viewed, despite some evidence to the contrary, as having been unproductive. "You work your ass off for years," complains Mark Knops, an underground-newspaper editor, "and nothing comes...
...true that Cooney Weiland is not known for his fiery inspiration, but many observers felt that Billy Cleary, the heir apparent, could give the Crimson the kick in the ass it needed this season. And although Harvard's lack of hitting is a problem, it's probably more of a symptom than a cause of Harvard's disappointing record...