Word: crapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brightest of his recent songs, however, carry their quality very lightly. "True, Paul's not innovative at the moment, but nobody is except Stevie Wonder," says Singer-Composer Harry Nilsson, a Beatles crony from way back, adding with some heat, "I don't buy all that crap about saccharine lyrics." Says Bhasker Menon, 41, president of Capitol, which distributes the McCartney records in the U.S.: "Paul is a consummate musician. When he does Yesterday it is one of the most beautiful songs I ever hear." Perhaps meaning to flatter, he adds with impolitic directness, "As a songwriter...
...moment let's forget all this theoretical crap and get down to the interesting stuff. There are a lot of evil minded gossip mongers--some of whom, you might be interested to know, are paid by foreign governments for their troubles--who claim that America's professional wrestlers are a bunch of beer-bellied longshoremen too washed up to take on any other work. Well, my friends, let's put that myth to rest right now. The men and women in big time wrestling are the most superbly conditioned athletes in the world. This fact may be ascertained...
...undeservedly shunned by directors, but the script has technical faults which director Richard Pena failed to recognize. Sometimes the metaphor of syphilis becomes obsessive, which makes the devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
...driving is the most important thing in her life. "A good truck is to a woman what a man ought to be," she says, "big and strong and takes you where you want to go. When a woman gets into a semi, it makes up for all the crap women take in our society...
...seconds, pit bosses held the dice at the crap tables; dealers shoed the cards at the 21 games; croupiers stopped the roulette wheels; and the casinos fell silent as players restively eyed their watches and women stared vacantly into their paper cups full of quarters in front of the slots. Sentiment not being a major commodity in Vegas, one man in the Desert Inn muttered when it was over, "Okay, he had his minute. Let's deal...