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...unique resonance about them-places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyo., or Greasy Creek, Ark., Lickskillet, Ky., or Scroungeout, Ala. Collectors of Americana also savor Braggadocio, Mo., the Humptulips River in Washington, Hen Scratch, Fla., Dead Irishman Gulch, S. Dak., Cut 'N Shoot, Texas, Helpmejack Creek, Ark., Bastard Peak, Wyo., Goon Dip Mountain, Ark., Tenstrike, Minn., Laughing Pig, Wyo., Two Teats, Calif., or Aswaguscawadic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Bowdler in Oregon | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

Evans said the cab driver called him "a cheep black bastard" and assaulted him physically at the end of a trip to Logan Airport in a taxi owned by the Ambassador Cab Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions Officer Beaten | 12/6/1972 | See Source »

...performance becomes unconvincing. "I look old," says a pensive Claude toward the end of the film, but it is only wishful thinking. Jean Pierre Leaud may never look old, and at least in Truffaut's hands, he seems destined to be always an adolescent schiemihl, never a middle-aged bastard...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Bad and Bored | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

...hostile waiter snarling, "Nigger, you can't eat here." "Suppose they throw at your head," Rickey demanded. "Suppose you're fielding a ground ball, and a white player charges into you and sneers, 'Next time get out of my way, you dirty black bastard.' What do you do then? Can you walk away from him?" Jack Roosevelt Robinson was puzzled. "Mr. Rickey," he said, "are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" "On the contrary," said Rickey, "I'm looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Hard Out | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...Leonardo's case, of course, the problems are colossal. The artist was a universal genius. He was also literally a secretive bastard, who invented a way of writing (right to left and upside down) to protect his plans and musings from prying eyes. Almost nothing is known about his private life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dubbed Genius | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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