Word: damns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words to the simian overlords ("Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!") to his final curse of Planet Earth ("God damn you all to hell!"). Since we've established that Heston was a deity, he could as easily have said, "I damn you all to hell...
...damn the beer. Samuel Adams' $120 Utopias, in a ridiculous copper-covered 24-oz. (710 mL) bottle meant to resemble an old-fashioned brew kettle, looked like the perfect candidate for a smackdown. First off, it's barely a beer. It's not carbonated like a Bud but aged in oak barrels like scotch, and it has a vintage year, like a Bordeaux. It is also unbelievably delicious--like a port flavored with malt and a touch of bite from the hops, and somehow light, complex and free of any alcohol sting, despite having six times as much alcohol content...
...talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue for gunslingers like a Brit: "Damn, Hester," Scoresby says, "you don't hit a drunk man with a stick." And, of course, nobody anywhere writes dialogue for bears like Pullman...
...break the agreed-upon format rules? We have at various times tried bells, whistles, everything but cattle prods, and I think rules can sometimes get very cumbersome. We've tried it with no rules, and especially in the late going, they're going to try to do whatever they damn well please...
...Which is not to say that Clinton's candidacy is entirely without purpose now that she is pursuing a Republican-style race gambit, questioning Obama's 20-year relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright. Democrats will soon learn how damaging that relationship might be in a general election. They'll also see if Obama has the gumption to bounce back, work hard-not just arena rallies for college kids but roundtables for the grizzled and unemployed in American Legion halls-and change the minds that have turned against him. The main reason superdelegates have not yet rallied...