Word: asses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gruff-talking, cigar-chomping bond trader, Gutfreund became chairman of Salomon in 1978. According to Liar's Poker, a 1989 best seller by Michael Lewis that described Salomon as a sort of financial Animal House, Gutfreund exhorted traders to come to work each morning "ready to bite the ass off a bear." When the traders were not executing centimillion-dollar deals, they delighted in such pranks as dumping garbage on one another's desks and replacing the contents of a male colleague's suitcase with lingerie...
...musician who cares only for his trumpet and his ego, took heat for its sardonic depiction of two Jewish businessmen. Lee had an answer for that charge too. He wanted to open Jungle Fever with advice to those who accused him of anti-Semitism: "They can kiss my black ass." After discussions with his patrons at Universal, the prologue was cut, but the director is typically unrepentant. "They can kiss my black ass two times," he avers...
...unimproved by speechwriters, aides or editors. Contrast his statesmanlike published prose on the Soviet Union's "strategic challenge of global proportion, which requires a renewed strategic consciousness" with this typical passage from the tapes about sacking IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters for refusing to harass Nixon's enemies: "Kick Walters' ass out first, and get a man in there." So damaging are the tapes to the Nixon rehabilitation that Republican Party leaders, who had been considering a Nixon appearance at the 1992 convention, are now rethinking the invitation...
...being supplanted by another woman. Bernard is ashamed to tell her the real reason for his dwindling ardor: the appearance at his radio station of a stranger who gives him a diploma-like document, handsomely executed and lettered, that reads, "Bernard Bertrand is hereby declared a Complete Ass." This bit of malevolence unhinges him because it makes him realize that many people, perhaps all of Paris, may have the same unflattering opinion of him and that there is no way he can change or escape the judgment...
...general is not naive about his opportunities or the obstacles that await him if he rides into the political battlefield. "There's a great expression I've always believed," Schwarzkopf observes. " 'The higher the monkey gets up the flagpole, the more opportunity he has to show his ass.' Or I should say his rear end." Perhaps even a public desperate for a plainspoken hero will give him some time off to collect his thoughts...