Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lamps, sending the relatives diving through the windows. Bush is mostly oblivious to the nuances of language, as if some moral or cultural dyslexia were knotting up the thought (which may explain why he keeps using oafishly wrong expressions like "read my lips" and "kick a little ass"). He seems to regard words as dangerous, potentially treacherous. Odd: it is a tenet of conservative intellectuals that "ideas have consequences." Bush sometimes sounds as if he regards ideas, and words, as an inconvenience and an irritation -- perverse, buzzing little demons that need to be brushed away periodically like flies...
...hadn't already promised the job to Jimmy Baker (the guy who showed me how to kick a little ass last week) I would have had you on my short list for secretary of state. Your steadfast refusal to divest Harvard's holdings from companies doing business in South Africa shows you understand the basic idea of foreign policy--the profit motive is far more important than morality. We can't let the concerns of thousands, even millions, of people effect our policy toward their nation. That would be just plain silly...
...consciousness and narration that strains to mimic on-the-street realism. Goldman was way over his head in trying to reproduce the voices of Black men. "Basketball is both pastime and narcotic in the ghetto, the cheapest high on the street," or "James Bonner wasn't no fictional bad-ass like Stackolee or Sudden Death. James Bonner was the real thing," are but some of the most glaring examples. The writing improves as the story develops, and fortunately, the power of each man's personal experiences prevents this from being more than a minor annoyance...
...really hear him cut loose in tunes like If I Had a Boat: "The mystery masked man was smart/ He got himself a Tonto/ 'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free/ But Tonto he was smarter/ And one day said kemo sabe/ Kiss my ass I bought a boat/ I'm going...
...like the way they treated Jackson," said Jennie Jarmon, a cosmetologist in Houston. "I think he's a jack-ass for not picking Jackson. He had so much support behind me. He would have been a fine addition to the ticket...