Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean, I'm not sqeamish. Maybe it's sort of a guilt thing. I've always felt bad for bugs. Always stepped on--be it by me or someone else--always feared just because they're all pretty damn ugly...
SCARLETT by Alexandra Ripley (Warner Books; $24.95). This gilding-the- cornflowe r sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is at last in the bookstores, amid megabucks of hype. And frankly, my dear, it's not worth a damn...
...PIECE OF ADVICE to prospective subjects: be sure you get a contract, especially when signing up for the privately organized experiments. You never know what could be done to you, and if your mind is going to be blasted you'd better be damn sure you're benefiting from...
Other members would not, as they say, dignify the charges with a response. Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski was particularly forthright. "None of your business," he told reporters. "None of your damn business." One of his staff members explained that Rostenkowski had never bounced a check but viewed any inquiries as "an intrusion into his private affairs." An aide to Democrat Gus Savage of Illinois said, "We're not discussing this at all with the press. If a receptionist had answered the phone you never would have heard from...
...Between the Sexes. It was a hard act to follow, even for Mitchell, who died in 1949 after she was struck by a car on Peachtree Street. She had steadfastly refused to write a sequel, preferring the icy finality of Rhett's, "My dear, I don't give a damn" (Gable threw in the "Frankly"). Yet Scarlett's final aria, "Tomorrow is another day," left the door open...