Word: damn
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...concert for the weak of heart. Unlike his controversial Royal Albert Hall concert of 1966 during which an audience member denounced Dylan, who was "going electric", as "Judas!", a traitor to his folk roots; this opportunity was never even given. Here was a man who didn't give a damn what you expected from his music. He could afford to do this because live, he is that damn good...
...right about the "sound strategy." And Greenspan knows it, and you get the feeling that eight years ago, the GOP would have known it too. The tax cut is too damn big. It?s supposed to differentiate the Republicans from the Clintoncrats, and it certainly does. The problem is that all those years of rightward, ho! has left Clinton as the fiscal conservative (with a Reagan-appointed Fed chairman on his side) and Republicans as the fiscal profligates. The boomers already got their money in 1981; now that they?ve got leftovers, they want to squirrel some of it away...
...they attend an ostentatious Christmas ball thrown by a wealthy friend (Sydney Pollack), Alice gets plastered and finds herself dancing with a skeezy Hungarian player; he whispers cheesy pick-up lines in her hear and she mumbles incoherent responses (not only does she mumble them, she mumbles them so damn s-l-o-w-l-y that you have to wonder whether Kidman was simply exhausted by Kubrick's repetitive takes). Meanwhile, Bill is entertained by a bevy of models before he is called to attend to a hooker who overdosed in the host's bathroom...
...prefer) natives behave. Even those who have only been to the City once (and even Boston natives know what I mean by that) can pick out a New Yorkers in a crowd. How can I put this nicely? We're a distinctive group. Yes, New Yorkers are rude, and damn it, we're proud of it. We're loud, we talk quickly and we have a tendency to run over the slowpoke tourists that flood our city. And why not? As residents of the greatest city in the world we tend to look down at everyone and everywhere else...
...prefer) natives behave. Even those who have only been to the City once (and even Boston natives know what I mean by that) can pick out a New Yorker in a crowd. How can I put this nicely? We're a distinctive group. Yes, New Yorkers are rude, and damn it, we're proud of it. We're loud, we talk quickly and we have a tendency to run over the slowpoke tourists that flood our city. And why not? As residents of the greatest city in the world we tend to look down at everyone and everywhere else...