Word: blah
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...that?' and I said yeah, and he said, 'Good shooting.' And that was it - what else was there to say?" Though he says his greatest achievement was marrying Marjorie, Kenna has always felt the special duty of being a VC winner. Long after the war, his captain, "Blah" Smith ("He was always talking, giving orders, blah, blah, blah"), told Kenna, "it takes a lot to win a VC, but it takes a lot more to wear it the way you have for all these years. You've done well...
...though the Yankees were in town. Game Four was this droning ballgame that you just knew we weren?t going to win. Wakefield goes nine, but gives up just enough homers. Stopgap Leiter holds the Sox just enough at bay. Sturtze, Gordon and Mo are able if not automatic. Blah, blah, blah...
...enough of the blah-blah-blog. We'll be back later with a real diary, covering the Star Wars screening and a heartfelt new Italian film from the director of The Best of Youth...
...worry about being a Tarantino-esque movie snob and figuring out all the references to the movies of Kurosawa or whatever. Don’t worry about outdoing your friends in East Asian Studies by identifying all the subtle cultural motifs of Pre-Mao cultures of violence or blah blah blah. Just remember what it was like to watch “Looney Tunes” or “Power Rangers”—you laughed when people got hurt in goofy ways, you jumped up and down with excitement when two guys were totally using magic...
...decided then to give [Secretary of State John Foster] Dulles the responsibility of talking to Krishna Menon, the Indian Ambassador to the United Nations, who had very good relations with both the Russians and the Chinese, and who loved to talk to people--a great blah blah blah. And Dulles--not exactly in a threatening way--said, 'You know, we are very concerned about Korea,' and 'The President's patience is wearing thin,' and finally saying that unless the logjam is broken, it will lead to the use of nuclear weapons. It worked. The Chinese were probably tired...