Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sligar stretches the imagination almost as much as the plot construction. The lines range from pure exposition to the hokey (Father, speaking of the son: "He called me old man!") to the absurd ("I don't know where you're headed, but you're going to be pushed there damn fast."). Some of the worst writing centers around Paul's teenage affair, gratuitously stuck into the second half--complete with flashback...
...seen," says Mrs. Paul Scott, 27, of suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young children, feels the same way. Eighteen months ago, she "just unplugged the damn thing and put it into the closet." She is particularly happy, she says, to be free of the bombardment of all those commercials...
...months we're given the message--the old Humphrey record--once again. There's some idle chatter about the year 2000 so we won't mind looking back so often, and all the self-deprecation helps build the ethos of an underdog, gaining momentum all the time, winning this damn election against the longest of odds...
Before Hoffman entered the room, Parker told the committee that they should have resolved the dispute in Colorado, not the night before the race. According to Captain Curt Canning, Douglas Robie, president of the USOC, snarled back, "You're damn right that's when we should have taken care...
...usual, grades will prevail. Which can only mean that many of the pre-meds who were planning to be doctors, not researchists, will find themselves in February with a fistful of rejections--or clutching tightly the letter of acceptance from one of their "insurance" schools, and being damn grateful they have...