Word: crapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crap!" cries Scheer. "That guy never reads a book. He's a politician. He's...he's..." Silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. "He's Sam Huntington! He's Pat Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there...
Calley admits he has no idea whether masterpieces are going to sell this season. "The business is, at best, a crap shoot. The fact that Stanley thinks the picture will gross in nine figures is very reassuring. He is never far wrong about anything." If Kubrick is right, he will be rich. By the terms of his deal with Warner, he receives 40% of Barry Lyndon's profits. Only one picture in history-Jaws-has made "nine figures"; it passed the $100 million mark last week...
...school, Zinn says, "I didn't have great feelings of enthusiasm because I don't feel enthusiastic about Harvard Law School--or any law school, for that matter. If it were anybody but Peter I'd have been a little worried that he might be submerged under all the crap you get at Law School. But I think Peter's strong enough, committed enough, to avoid all that...
...scatological obsessions in playwright Howard O'Brien's script are sort of dull, but the characters that lack them tend to buckle under familiar interpretations. O'Brien fills the play's most decrepit role as Old Man Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...
...hell of a lot to shake off some of that stuff. I think for a large number of people in this book that was true--a large number of them have spent years and years and years trying to fight their way out from under all that crap that was laid on them when they were young...