Word: asses
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...Metzenbaum drew attention to the practice by mounting a filibuster against the Christmas ornaments. In the process he has incurred the wrath of his colleagues. Says Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, in words seldom uttered in the august corridors: "I think he's a pain in the ass...
Both Lola and Veronika Voss are set in 1955. Lola (Barbara Sukowa) works in a Coburg bordello: chanteuse for the early show, and after that "the woman with the sweetest ass in NATO" for the town's corrupt burghers. Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is an honest public official whose idea of an evening's entertainment is to watch the test pattern on his new TV set. Unaware of Lola's occupation, Von Bohm takes her on a date to church-such are the idealist's hopes for a spiritually healthy postwar Germany-and falls...
...fact, one of the targets did figure it out. Suspecting after a second tape-recorded cocaine sale that he was being set up, the pusher threatened to kill Watson and his family. Instead, Chandler pressured the man to cooperate. "He flipped," says Chandler. "He was looking out for his ass." As it turned out, the "flipper" made drug buys that accounted for ten of the 13 indictments. In return he may escape jail...
This shortcoming will probably disappoint those who see Hair hoping for a jolting dose of Sixties political fervor. Except for an introductory audio-visual mood-setter, the political radicalism remains muddled throughout the show and seems severely dated when it does emerge briefly. The "don't-draft-my-ass" response to corrupt foreign policy is no longer fitting or sufficient; we already know America hasn't always worn the white hat. Likewise, the drive for uniform civil rights has gone beyond merely pointing out that Blacks exist and have concerns and emotions of their...
...assay of Henry Miller. More than 40 years ago, when it was bold to praise Tropic of Cancer, George Orwell wrote that Miller's value lay in his very ordinariness: " 'The average sensual man' has been given the power of speech, like Balaam's ass." That is not an inconsiderable gift, but Mailer will not be content with it. To him, "one has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity...