Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly underrated element in people's lives these days." Says Paul: "I enjoy the precision of racing, harnessing something as huge and powerful as a car and putting it as close to where you want it as you can. Besides, it's a kick in the ass...
...Sure.' The first thing I saw in the script was that my character was supposed to be weeping offstage. The muscles contracted in my stomach, and immediately I tried to figure out some way to play the whole thing facing upstage. And then I thought, 'What an ass. I drag my family with only $900 in the bank all the way to Connecticut and then think of all the ways I can to cop out.' At the time I was living in a boardinghouse, and I took that script downstairs to the boiler room and I said...
...others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
...hazardous presidential luxury. Virtually all of the real stuff is contained backstage while the public displays are carefully controlled and released. John Kennedy's outburst that Big Steel men were s.o.b.s was muffled in the Oval Office, then leaked. Jimmy Carter's "I'll whip his ass" (Ted Kennedy's) was orchestrated better than Carter's State of the Union addresses. Even Harry Truman's most famous explosions were in private. Nixon once got angry at reporters, grabbed Press Secretary Ron Ziegler and pushed him toward the panting pack, snapping...
...lunch with Fritz Mondale. He thought that my comment concerning "whipping Kennedy's ass" in the battle for the presidential nomination was illadvised. His is kind of a lonely voice. Some of my staff members said it was the best thing for morale around the White House since the Willie