Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biting comment exchanged over the potato counter in Stalinist Moscow is not for here. But there is humor elsewhere, not in the queazy attempts at stand-up savagery, but the politics themselves. How can you poke fun at American politics when the thing itself is so damn hilarious? Why make endless quips about that nice Mr. Quayle when one look at his squidgy visage, writhing with stupidity, outdoes anything a comedian could express. All the way through the Vice-Presidential debate I was doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life...
What he said was really ridiculous. He said "I know exactly where they're coming from." He hasn't got a damn idea where we're coming from! I like the Peppers, they're a band I've always liked, but as far as I'm concerned, musically we're nothing like them at all. I think they're really great, with their attitude and all they've done, but musically they're not like our big idols. It's not like they're such great musicians or their songs are so fantastic. So it didn't hurt that...
...Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...
...called innocent so-called Golden Age, movies were objects of public controversy or rejection. In Medved's favorite film year, 1939, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was condemned by many U.S. Senators and editorial writers, and Gone with the Wind stoked a furor with its use of the word damn. Today, other tendencies in Golden Age movies -- the stereotyping of blacks, gays and other minorities -- seem vicious in retrospect. Back then, the middle class was in charge, and they made fun of those below. Now films are a minority pleasure, so the majority is the butt of harsh humor...
...damn polls, Dick, economy thing -- Reagan Democrats, Clinton Republicans, every which way. Get the jobs out to the ZIP codes, Jim says, or it's January in Kennebunkport, too cold for golf...