Word: dishrag
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NEVER A MAN FOR SELF-EFFACEMENT, BORIS YELTSIN concluded last week's signing of the START II treaty by pronouncing it the "document of the century." He then seized the hand of George ("my friend") Bush and began squeezing as if he were trying to wring out a wet dishrag. The gesture was an appropriate one: increasingly beleaguered by a devilish array of domestic problems, the Russian President must twist every drop of prestige he can from his foreign triumphs. Yet not even the acclaim of history's most extensive cutback in nuclear missiles could compensate for an economy tailspinning...
...Vermont farm country. A slippery statehouse politician named Ed Cobb tries to persuade Henry Briggs, a retired major- league relief pitcher, to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Briggs, a born-and-bred Vermonter and no fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball he played around, and now she's getting back at him. Talk is plot is literature...
...Clay's comedy, woman is only a sexual convenience, a sentimental slag, a "dishrag hoo-er." For him, all romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there...
...that began to change when he enrolled at Andover. His parents stopped hiding the strength of their feelings about Palestine, and Tarazi grew more sensitive to comments like a reference to Arafat's "dishrag headdress" in a letter to the editor of his school paper...
DAVID LYNCH'S FILMS leave you dishrag limp and beyond commentary. Blue Velvet, his new movie, a "mystery thriller" analogous to Alfred Hitchcock's "family drama" Psycho, should come with seatbelts, or restraining harnesses, whatever it takes to keep the overwhelmed viewer from being sucked into all the utter energy on the screen...