Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fulminated and fornicated across the landscape of 16th century England, leaving behind a legacy both glorious and gory. Henry expanded his realm by bringing in Wales and Ireland. He gave England poetry, music, art and literature. Henry also gave it Protestantism, six queens, two royal beheadings, three heirs, countless bastard children-and nearly bankrupted the country in the process...
...except for some of "the young guys, the hopefuls." Still recuperating, he cannot forget that while he was in the hospital, his get-well cards included one reading "Better luck next time, you scumbag." Another said: "Too bad you didn't get your brains blown out, you rat bastard." Says Serpico sadly: "Cops are afraid to be honest, the system is so corrupt...
...from General Murray's stifling Cairo staff and indulge in colorful heroics. Lawrence is gradually seduced by the life-style of an Arab warrior, and by the possibility of playing an epic role in the formation of a new democracy-a task which would offer him visionary fulfillment. A bastard, without any inherited identity but possessed of an irrepressible free will, Lawrence welcomes the opportunity to create a myth out of his own clay...
Thomas Dewey had mellowed in his later years. Teased about the fact that his dark hair was finally beginning to thin, he could pat a balding correspondent on the head and reply: "Who are you to talk, you old bastard?" Yet he could never completely shake his waxen image as "the bridegroom on the wedding cake." He was still widely remembered that way when he died last week of a heart attack after playing 18 holes of golf in the 90° heat of Bal Harbour, Fla., his favorite winter refuge. In another week he would have been...
This production of Endgame is worth seeing, however, but only if one is willing to spend two hours in a world where love and happiness and forgiveness are not in the vocabulary, where a prayer to God is given up because "the bastard doesn't exist," where only jaded, effete people live playing out meaningless parts, where-Oh well. You know what I'm talking about...