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That then, is what a convention is all about. Candidates, trailed by their faithful, talk to many delegates. Delegates stick together with their own states. Newsmen by the thousands scurry about squeezing juice out of dried up oranges and Republican leaders toss out more partisan crap than any thinking human being should be asked to tolerate...
...Green Berets have already been overly romanticized in song and book, including Robin Moore's novel, on which the movie is based. "That's a lot of crap," says Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Hassinger, deputy commander of the Special Forces in Viet Nam. "There's not much glamour in our outfit -just a lot of hard work." Well, not quite. There are only 2,600 Green Berets in Viet Nam, but they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They...
Things smell more in the heat. The heat holds the smell in, brings it closer to you. You can smell the garbage rotting in the sun next door. And when you walk by Briggs & Briggs there is some dog crap all wet in the sidewalk and it smells up half a block and it smells up your shoes...
Hubert Humphrey bounces into the Oval Room of the White House, exuding more than his usual good spirits. "By golly, by gum, gee whillikers, don't you look wonderful, Mr. President!" Lyndon Johnson replies with his usual frankness: "All right, cut the crap, Hubie. I got somethin' to tell ya." Thus the President informs the Vice President that he does not intend to run for reelection, that the way is now open for a Humphrey candidacy. "Hello, Muriel Bird," the Veep burbles into the phone five minutes later. "Have I got good news...
...Chienlit is derived from a three-word phrase, chie en lit, which means literally "crap in bed." As a compound word, however, the term has acquired a somewhat more generalized and sanitary connotation. When preceded by the feminine article la, the term connotes messing about or stirring up a carnival. But when used with the masculine article le, the term is more vulgar, denoting one who soils his bed or goes about with a dirty shirttail hanging out. By omitting the article, De Gaulle left his meaning purposefully ambiguous. As a rejoinder to the general, rebellious students and workers have...