Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first one into ANY fucking movie, you're wrong man, you're so wrong, so you've just gotta take it on faith when I put it to you like this: me and my old lady we slept outside the Presidio Theater in a fucking SLEEPING BAG the night before our movie opened, don't shit your grits, everybody loves a sonofabitch. that's what you and your goddamn Don't Look Back are all about, aren't they? Face it, man, you step on their heads and they love it, you cut them up in little ribbons, that science...
...Phillips recalls that trucks used to oil the dirt road in front of her house to keep the dust down and that Hampton phone numbers "were particularly easy to remember. They consisted of only two digits." At age eleven, she tried cotton picking: "I can still feel the burlap bag cutting into my shoulder." Twelve years later she dropped out of the University of Georgia to work for the Atlanta Constitution, joined the Washington Post in 1968. She frequently covered civil rights stories while a reporter and has kept up with the field since joining TIME last July...
...week before the Oregon primary. Jackson would be a sure thing in Washington; that would give him a psychological boost for Oregon, and the combined momentum might then carry him to a crucial primary victory in California. By this plan Jackson would go to the convention with a formidable bag of Western delegates...
...THINK I'd like to see more rapport between older black writers and younger black writers. I think the publishing industry has had us in such a bag-you know, we're gonna give you this as an advance, but you don't tell lob how much you got cause we didn't give him this much. And the critics like Jimmy Baldwin, but they hate Ernie Gaines, and it'd be a disaster if them two cats got together. And all the rest of that, which is nonsense. I mean, you view the white literary establishment: Styron, Roth...
Perhaps the only happy man in the Cabinet, next to Morton, would be Transportation Secretary, John Volpe, who could load lemonade, sleeping bag, and portable power saw into a camper and set off across the American countryside, pausing now and then to picnic and saw down a roadside billboard...