Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction. If the crowd doesn't respond...
Maybe it would--marginally. Ford's record seems to be relatively free from the sort of petty personal corruption which Nixon has apparently engaged in. And Ford does not take as contemptuous an approach to Congress as his boss in the White House, even though in his younger days he once described Congress as a "weak, wet noodle." But the very absence of serious personal objections to Ford makes it especially important to oppose his politics. All the more so now that media coverage of opposition to Nixon is focusing nearly exclusively on the ways Nixon's men carried...
...that the chief villain is named Hedley Lamarr, and the actors insist on mispronouncing his name; that at a town meeting an anguished citizen complains that "people are being stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by their straw boss, respond with a nice arrangement of Cole Porter's I Get a Kick out of You; that ex-Football Tackier Alex Karras, on hand to play a homicidal moron, gets in a fight with a horse and fells it with a single roundhouse blow; that Cleavon Little, as the heroic...
Frequently a bone-crushing, ego-bruising boss and companion, the late President Lyndon Johnson was at his most magnetic and charming with women. Over the years, followers of the Johnson career noted how he enjoyed flirting with, among others, the irrepressible Barbara Howar, Actress Merle Oberon, and White House Journalist Marianne Means. Questioned on the Today Show last week by Barbara Walters, his widow Lady Bird, 61, did not deny Lyndon had been a ladies' man. "Lyndon was a people lover," she said, "and that did not exclude half the people in the world -women. Oh, I think perhaps...
...boss was an old-style Carolina gentleman, revamped. He had gotten tired of his retirement from the realty business, learned to say "Negro" instead of "nigra," at least to black people, and gone to work for the government. His face was red and full, topped by short white hair. His first name was Roscoe, but he very much preferred "R.C." so of course we called him "Arsey." He was continually sucking the life out of a stubby Raleigh--it seemed like he smoked a carton...