Word: asses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herrnstein said that this principle could be applied in education by dividing a student's performance by his I.Q. "It's obviously ridiculous to give somebody with a 160 I.Q. A's just for sitting on his ass, while a kid with an 80 I.Q. is breaking his back and getting...
...approximately 200 members of your class being considered by a club. If you are a regular guy, you will be wined and dined by a variety of clubs for about two months, at which point you can join one, provided you don't make an ass out of yourself...
...times fumbled badly, by letting his guests run away with the show, by standing too much in awe of their prestige, or by being unprepared. He can also be a little less than sophisticated when he feels the spirit. Radical Jerry Rubin moved him to say "Politics bores the ass off me." He once cut off an LSD sales pitch from Timothy Leary with "You're full of crap...
...listen, man, if you think I would bust my ass trying to be the first one into ANY fucking movie, you're wrong man, you're so wrong, so you've just gotta take it on faith when I put it to you like this: me and my old lady we slept outside the Presidio Theater in a fucking SLEEPING BAG the night before our movie opened, don't shit your grits, everybody loves a sonofabitch. that's what you and your goddamn Don't Look Back are all about, aren't they? Face it, man, you step on their...
...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...