Word: bastardize
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...consistently Irish. If Up Tight's cast is Negro, the script is in straight blackface, with such lines as "Nonviolence is a self-defeating mother." Its bogus climaxes are reminiscent of the '30s' group-theater lyricism, as when Tank wails at a smeltery, "You noisy beautiful bastard, remember me?", or when he roars, "The city is killing me ... it's killing both of us." Because Up Tight was filmed in the ghetto of Cleveland, it occasionally rings true, like a quarter in a handful of slugs. Roscoe Lee Browne as a traitorous homosexual and Raymond...
...religious groups claim that civil marriages would break the unity of the nation, for it would be impossible to make certain of the Jewish background of potential wives and husbands. Because of this concern, remarriages after civil divorces which are not performed by the rabbis may result in "bastard" children, who, according to the religious groups, are out of the pale of Jewish life...
...other side interprets it as a deliberate walkout. The talks are also spiced with undiplomatic language. When U.S. Army Major General Richard Ciccolella was the senior United Nations member last year, he regularly prefaced his remarks to North Korean Major General Pak Chun Kuk with the phrase: "Pak, you bastard." Pak, in turn, snapped at Ciccolella when the American's attention strayed during an involved explanation of a document: "Look at the goddamn chart...
...communicate do not want a reformed church, a free church or an open church. They don't want any church, because they have grown free enough, mature enough not to need it. They have the best of its values without its fears, its hang-ups, its commitments to bastard structures. They can live honestly in or out of community, deal with present poverty, suffering, injustice-without the church. The liberals who suggest a church without compelling dogmas, stifling rituals and unreal moral codes will find that such a church already exists. It's called the world...
...stake. "I'm only in it for the money," one sad, balding man told me. "I've got a wife and five kids and I want to put a down payment on a house in Salisbury." Another Rhodesian had a second motive: "That Harold Wilson is a bastard. He's against Biafra and he's buggering us too. This is a chance to bugger him." Everyone roared with laughter...