Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dilemmas faced by the protagonist, Mark, in his uncertain road to priesthood, are closely tied to Davis' own struggles as a writer. "At first I just wanted to tell people off, to kick ass. Like Mark, I just wanted to say things that were shocking and upset people, make them change. But you can't just come out and od that because it's not going to sustain an evening at the theatre. People will say, 'Big deal, you think that, so get lost.' You have to have structure, you have to have movement, you have to have humor...
...quite a long story, soldier, but in a nutshell, the Air Force started out with Stealth for planes; the Navy wanted it for subs; the Army couldn't thing of anything so it asked for more tanks; the commies said it would cost too much; and some smart ass in the Senate found out it wouldn't be ready for anything larger than a desk until 1998. So we didn't improve national security, but for only a million per unit, we've leapfrogged the Russians on office technology...
...just a kick-ass rock 'n' roll night," he said. "People inside were fine, the people outside could hear, and everyone went home happy...it's just a shame that the Stones weren't given the opportunity to communicate with young people in Boston the same...
...hates cops; he wants to be buddies with everybody, but he is apalled at his colleagues' ways. He cares most about loyalty--loyalty to his partners and to the laws they enforce, though these are not always the law of the land. He also wants to save his own ass. It is an endlessly complex, perhaps even contradictory role, demanding an actor capable of expressing subtle character evolution in a man who is anything but subtle. Strangely, Williams vacillates from the superb--especially early in the final hour--to the abysmal--particularly in his first few scenes with the prosecutors...
...presents his own version of the flaming batons routine, says another reason he and his cohorts have had more success recently is that the Cambridge police have refrained from breaking up larger audiences. "One cop did tell me the other night that he'd stick the torches up my ass, but I don't think he was serious, and most of them have been pretty friendly," he says...