Word: blooey
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...uses these, she says, to demonstrate how dark thoughts and bad words can worm their way into the human cortex. Before the summer session begins, she blesses her camp's fairly sophisticated audio-visual system to make certain the devil doesn't get into it and make it go blooey at some inopportune moment. One of the high points of the week's merriment is the introduction of a life-size cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush, which is frankly treated as if it was something like a communion's wine and wafers - a transubstantiation of a living...
...pulp fiction--American Tabloid is a big, boisterous, rude and shameless reminder of why reading can be so engrossing and so much fun. The secret, of course, is language. When it is used well-which in Ellroy's case means being pared down to taut, telegraphic sentences, subject-verb-blooey!-one word is worth a thousand pictures...
...causes of economic crisis that led to the current situation. In describing the 1968 crisis, he suggests that: "the economy took one look at [Belaunde] and promptly plunged into chaotic inflation." Similarly, when describing the conditions in 1980, he states, "Guess what? The economy, still allergic to Belaunde, went blooey again." I wish that the millions of Peruvians who struggle to make a living on a daily basis knew that the causes of their problems are simple enough to warrant the laughter of university students as they are dying of hunger...
Guess what? The economy, still allergic to Belaunde, went blooey again. When the kinder, gentler APRA went head to head with Belaunde in 1985, it thrashed him. APRA's Alan Garcia, a populist who was liked but not as revered as el Jefe had been, campaigned on such perennially crowd-pleasing issues as screwing the International Monetary Fund and not paying off Peru's debts...
...then it all goes blooey with an endless, irrelevant car chase and -- shades of Snidely Whiplash! -- a showdown in a sawmill. Was Badham's heart really in these contortions? Or did he, like us, leave it back at Maria's place, where a smart, sweet comedy was so rudely interrupted...