Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through his alcoholic fog long enough to become aware of the un sung death of Leon Hubbard, interviews the grieving mother and falls in love with her. As Mickey's luck careers downhill, he reflects on the source of his troubles: "Alive, Leon was a pain in the ass; dead, he was killing...
...strung on the tree like a wild pig ready for dressing, every stiff hair on his matted legs contributing its realism to the myth. On the right is another of Apollo's victims: Midas, the Phrygian king who voted against Apollo in another music contest and was given ass's ears by the angry god. His face is Titian's self-portrait...
...abruptly asking, "What good will it do?" Says his onetime partner Thomas Davis, a California venture capitalist: "He only wants the right answer." Behind Rock's understated exterior lurks a remorseless will. Notes Palevsky: "Arthur makes it clear you had better win and you had better work your ass off all the time...
...have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good." To which Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz cracked, "Imagine-the whole world wired to Harry Conn's ass!" Oddly enough, Cohn deserves the last laugh; more than a few current films could benefit from his circuitry. On the whole, today's movies are longer but not richer. Their story lines are no more complicated, their characters no more complex, their visual style no more elegant, their dialogue...
...kind of case whose outcome seemed to justify Mr. Bumble's judgment that "the law is a ass." A man who jumped in front of a subway train in an attempt to kill himself sued the local transit authority-and won a $650,000 settlement. Only in New York, a smug outlander might be tempted to say. In theory, though, it could have occurred in most states, a dumbfounding example of how a needed legal reform can be pushed to the edge of irrationality...