Word: asses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freak just like the rest of you. He'll take you on a trip. He's more himself than any of us are him. I sound like I'm trying to introduce a circus act on the Ed Sullivan show. If my bare ass has pleased you, the next show will costume your fancy--JOBRIATH. Sweet Pie, introducing Jobriath...
...thoughtfully turned three-quarters toward the audience--legs stomping and kicking. "Every loving day doesn't end in a loving way." Sweet Pie turns to a girl in the audience: "You finally went drinking in a joint with class, and all you got was a middle-age ass! Woooooooooo...
...when asked to describe his act. He is applying makeup in a Clairol Perfect Light Mirror. Blue eyeshadow. Maybelline mascara. Vermillion lipstick. Jobriath claims he only wears make-up for shows. "I do all this because it amuses me--it amuses me to come back here and bust my ass getting into these costumes. It keeps me busy. It makes me much more myself...
...Dictabelt, Nixon placed much of the blame for the whole Watergate imbroglio on Charles Colson, who had recently resigned as White House special counsel. "Apparently what happened is that Colson, with Liddy and Hunt in his office, called Magruder and told him in February to get off his ass and start doing something about, uh, setting up some kind of an operation . . . Colson was always pushing terribly hard for action, and in this instance, uh, pushed so hard that, uh, Liddy et al following their natural inclinations, uh, went, uh, the extra step which got them into serious trouble...
...Shakespearean stage, like our own, was cankered with financial woes and preoccupied with sex. Shakespeare produced more dubious double entendres than anyone before or since. Some are readily perceived: Hamlet's announcement, "Then came each actor on his ass," meant then what it does now. In the first Elizabethan world - when there were some 40 euphemisms for sexual organs (including will, dial and den)-almost every passage twinkled with lewdness. Like today's cheerless smut, the Elizabethan bawdiness was both deplored and exploited. The nonsexual slang has traveled with greater success: here are the witches in Macbeth, telling...