Word: asses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What tribe are you from?” On a cold December day in Washington, D.C. some years ago when I was a Senate page, Senator Burns entered the Republican cloakroom and declared, “It’s colder than a well-digger’s ass in the Klondike!” Such talk would never fly elsewhere, but most Montanans are endeared to what is termed Burns’ “folksiness...
...were NBA commissioner, what would you do differently? I would speed the game up a little bit and make it really a game. Make a guy have to beat a guy--not flop and get calls and be nice to the referees and kiss ass. You're not better than me, you shouldn't be able to beat...
...sometimes caricature backfires. Emerson senior Sara Collins’ Val, the clear-eyed, self-indulgent cynic, sings “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three,” an ode to career advancement via plastic surgery. The more honest title for the song would be “Tits and Ass,” a phrase Collins sings over and over again with annoying self-satisfaction. There were other, similar missteps, when cast members seem too proud of the joke they had thought up to bother making it funny.Other opportunities for humor or emotional exposition are left unexploited by unimaginative direction...
...Harry Potter: shake down a Folk and Myth professor until they teach you some bad-ass spells. While you’re at it, steal their academic robes and a broom from their utility closet to complete the look. 2) Rock the lanyard and “Harvard 2010” T-shirt...all the way to UHS, after furtively drinking plastic handle vodka in Lionel. Yet again, you’re a freshman. 3) Drown...you’re Harry Elkins Widener! 4) Put together some writing, publish it once in awhile, and have nobody read it?...
...you’re so inclined, the online birding journal “Bird Observer” says that Mt. Auburn is a breeding ground for a startling variety of birds, including the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown-headed cowbird. Don’t let these candy-ass names fool you, though. Their blood-curdling cries will strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest Sunday stroller. The graves at Mt. Auburn provide an architectural counterpoint to its natural fall beauty. The tombstone of Charles Bulfinch—architect of such early 19th century Federal-style landmarks...