Word: bugger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side of the coin, Amiel Sternberg's Uncle Ernie, a doddering bugger who assaults Tommy while singing "Fiddle About," is certainly a horny old bastard but is played too much as a drooling victim of uncontrollable sexual urges. The innocent relish of Daltry's original has disappeared and the desperate emotion that takes its place is unconvincing. Who would even ask the question "Do you think it's all right--(to leave the boy with Uncle Ernie)" if they were leaving him behind with such a creature...
Coglin set new Eastern, Harvard and pool records in the 200-yd. individual medley, a race he jokingly terms "a boring old bugger," and in the 400 IM touched a mere .11 seconds behind first place finisher and teammate, Ron Raikula...
...friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle...
Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) has a pathological passion for his own privacy. That has its vocational advantages, of course-"the best bugger on the West Coast" ought to be as anonymous as possible. Beyond this, though, Caul's insulation is a way of sealing himself off from his own guilt. There is blood already on his expert hands. An earlier surveillance operation resulted in the murder of an accountant, his wife and kids. Harry begins to see their specters in his new assignment: to record an apparently innocuous conversation between a young woman (Cindy Williams) and a man (Frederic...