Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone is so successful, of course. Very often the poor remain poor. But there are differences nonetheless. On a small brass strip on a door in Brooklyn's sweltering Keap Street, the inscription says: Diós bendiga nuestro hogar (God Bless our Home). On each side of the inscription there is a tiny enameled flag, Dominican on the left, American on the right. Near by is a name plate that says: Familia Ortega. In the five rooms inside live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also...
...replicas of a man in bed. Two tourists, a husband and wife, enter the room. The proprietress announces that the admission is $2 each. Replies the man: "Two dollars! Shit!" Leave it to the man who brought opera to both Broadway (The Consul) and film (The Medium) to bless the operatic lexicon with one of the commoner four-letter words...
...absurd million, for his stadium extravaganza. In preparation, 1,500 of his relentlessly smiling young followers held brass-band rallies from Harlem to Wall Street, plastered every available wall with red-white-and-blue posters bearing Moon's smiling face, and handed out free tickets to the "God Bless America Festival." In a shrewd civic come-on, platoons of Moonies donned white jumpsuits, armed themselves with brooms and plastic bags and cheerfully worked from neighborhood to neighborhood tidying up city streets...
...good ole boys. In the circumstances, one comes to admire Brando even more. Apparently, he was the only major participant in the project to see that it was a load of nonsense and that the only honorable course was to send it up. His efforts along that line - bless his heart - are an act of creative subversion and provide moviegoers with the one reason for seeing the film...
...drank beer and wine: it ran down my mustache but did not go into my mouth" ... "And the knight married the princess Paliusha and gave a most wonderful feast. I dined and drank mead with them, and their cabbage was toothsome. Even now I could eat some!" The bards, bless them, deserved it. Patricia Blake