Word: bastardizes
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...find much sympathy for your skiinjury," it began cruelly. "You deserve it for the soft life you've been handed, you bastard. I hope it mends in time for your next big-shot fete. If it doesn't, maybe you can make up a good story about how you got your limp, one that Zbiggy or Gore or Truman or Jackie will swallow like hot pate...
Four or five times the reader is told that Bob Haldeman is a direct, unvarnished, no-nonsense bastard who always tells it like it is. That is the Haldeman I remember. But time after time, the accounts of Watergate events in his book are couched in the vague terms of the diplomat who is walking on eggs...
...didn't devote so much space each month to advice by Xaviera Hollander, "the happy hooker," who favors whatever two or more people can do together. He also publishes long accounts of readers' fantasized sexual successes, which he apparently considers a contribution to mental health: "Some browbeaten bastard in a bed-sitting-room reads it and says, I'm not a freak.' " How much further does Guccione long to go? "I'm no missionary. It isn't really what we want to do. It's what the public wants...
...comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes by the CB monicker "Pigpen" in Convoy. "Sam's a pain in the ass, but we all want to be part of his gang. He's a genius, the bastard...
...Lunch. Meantime the trusty old dog, bastard, genius, otherwise known by his own CB handle "Iguana," is besieged by his staff every time he walks out of the hotel or his air-conditioned trailer. The picture is a logistics nightmare, with 28 giant, 18-wheel trucks and 38 other assorted vehicles that have to be maneuvered with military precision, and only the director can say where they are to go. Most of the questions he simply ignores or shrugs off, however, his head shrinking toward his collar like a turtle putting out the OUT-TO-LUNCH sign. Short, hunched, with...