Word: bastardly
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...long ago, people went up to the attic to stow clutter away. Today they bring it down. Nostalgia and its bastard cousin, camp, have transformed debris into antiques, and trivia into gold. In the Hollywood attic, two losers have been moldering for over a year, waiting for a miracle that would render them profitable. The leftovers are Fearless Frank and Madigan's Millions, and the miracle is Midnight Cowboy, which reinforced the reputation of Dustin Hoffman and elevated Jon Voight from a cipher into a star with a six-figure salary. This month American International Pictures, with the calculation...
...good observation. It's not at all clear what is the best way to hurt someone. There are at least two options. First, tell all your victim's friends that he is a bastard, peur ink all over his notebooks, steal his girl friend. This method may indeed make the person go mad. Second, convince someone that you love him, and then, just at the right moment, cease to do so, saying you have always despised him. At the very least , this will induce temporary insanity...
...only hitch in this family's freedom is a white liberal, Tillich ("I've seen Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," he say. "Twice!" ), who arrives on this morning to murder some "black bastard" who knocked up his daughter. Tillich is rather upset to discover that the black boy he had expected to kill is now white. And, as he and the family play some explosive power politics during the course of the play, the family gradually arrives at the conclusion that "black is beautiful" after...
...kind of bastard of the West; when I followed the line of my past, I did not find myself in Europe but in Africa. And this meant that in some subtle way, in a really profound way, I brought to Shakespeare, Bach, Rembrandt, to the stones of Paris, to the Cathedral at Chartres, and to the Empire State Building, a special attitude. These were not really my creations, they did not contain my history; 1 might search them in vain forever for any reflection of myself...
...Crimson will face a similar problem this year, but now they'll have to solve the bastard Holy Cross offense-a blocking system geared to a single-wing attack, but coupled to a T-formation. Judging from what Yovicsin saw during his team's intrasquad scrimmage in the Stadium last Saturday. Harvard could have a rough opener on its hands this weekend...