Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed my amazement, and he went on. "Look -- you can tell a lot from words. Do you know your Bible? You know where the Lord says that no bastard shall be allowed to enter the Kingdom of God unto the tenth generation? Well, we now know that the true meaning of the word bastard was mongrel, or race mixer. But do you see the people of this country paying any attention to the words...
...Arts. War was the main busi ness of the state, and the state, of course, was Louis. He rode often to the wars and received progress reports every day on the building at Versailles. He rode to hounds, but was less diligent in reading dispatches from the front; some bastard of his-or some other kin-was always there to look after the fighting. The best of the lot of left-handed royalty was the Due de Vendome, who "at the age of 54 looked like an old, fat, dirty, diseased woman" and was syphilitic to boot ("his nose quite...
There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through...
...when the actors can't control their movement, the effect is alternately annoying and absurd. Dan Deitch as Yang Sun, the unemployed flyer, just tries to do too much with his body. He contorts across the stage, face grimacing and body tensed. Everyone knows that Yang is a bastard, so Shen Te's love for him can only be based on sheer sex appeal. Deitch, by equating gruffness and stiff limbs with masculinity makes his appeal to Shen Te incomprehensible...
...story's hero, 16-year-old Gennaro, is named for the city's patron, San Gennaro, whose clotted, vial-encased blood, according to tradition, miraculously bubbles three times each year. Gennaro's blood bubbles daily. The ebullient bastard child of a peasant mother and soldier father, he divides his zealous energies between caring for his impoverished, half-paralyzed Chinese grandfather and carrying on grandfather's moribund undertaking establishment...