Word: dese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, we get dese chips and piquante sauce. Dey OK. We eat dem up. Drink Corona beer and goutons a Margarita ($2.95). "Dis Margarita tastes like Windex!" my frien' says. But don't dey all? C'est comme...
...people smiling nowadays, odds are they're Democrats. Dese Dems are happy, of course, about snatching the Senate out from the reactionary clutches of the GOP. And well they should be. But Paul Kirk and Co. seem to have already called the caterer for another victory celebration a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue two years hence. Much as I hate to be a party-pooper, please permit me to switch gears, mix metaphors and rain on the Democrats' victory parade...
...exactly offensive or entirely appealing, Marino has several grace notes to offset a sometimes snarly street-corner manner. A ready laugh, for one. "Just taking it easy, having fun," he likes to say. His common speech owes something to Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, though he can shift from "dese" and "dose" to a surprising eloquence. He sways behind the center like a royal palm, but it is a greater wonder how he can swagger sitting down and strut standing still. A compact passing release is characteristic of his general economy of movement and thought. "Most quarterbacks have that high...
...pompously awful weekly column about magazines in the Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...