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...startlingly specific about ancient life and Judea's harsh, terrible beauty. Unlike many authors of biblical fiction, he blends his research smoothly into his narrative and adds a leavening pinch of humor. Musa is like a preincarnation of Zero Mostel, especially when he orders flunkies to push a dead donkey over a cliff. Awaiting a sign from God, a surprised and unquestioning Jesus watches the carcass plunge past his cave opening...
...shop-lift the pootie, to mess around, to get a piece, to lay pipe, to get it on, to knock boots with, to snog, to go down, to shift, to shag, to shag her silly, to shag her rotten, to loc the dinky, to plow the muddy road, to donkey-punch, to get some action, to hit that shit, to get some, to bunt, to get on, to shack up, to bless, HBI, to go south, to tax that ass, to hit that, to get laid, to hump, to bang bang bang bang bang...
...called "Mother's Meditation (In the Hospital)." In it she reflects on Christ's question to his apostles: "Who do you say I am?" She notes that he was the boy born in Bethlehem, "put in the manger full of straw...kept warm by the breath of the donkey," who grew up to be "an ordinary man without much learning...
...that four Mississippi delegates hitched a ride to a party in a chauffeured Kennedy campaign car that then collided with another car. The injured (and apparently ungrateful) foursome sued J.F.K. for $450,000. Among the plaintiffs: HUGH BAILEY, a colorful state senator known for his regular antics on a donkey, who hired lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, later of palimony fame. As Mitchelson's interrogatories began chipping into valuable White House time, J.F.K.'s lawyers tried a now familiar tactic. They argued that the Commander in Chief was temporarily protected from suit under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief...
...companion volume) The Shock of the New. Now that he has brought off the feat of writing a whole magazine, what does Hughes have in mind for the future? Well, he's thinking about a book on Goya--but he's in no hurry to get to it. "The donkey," he says, "needs to graze a while after dragging such a load up such a hill." All of us who have worked with him on this issue know that the climb has been steep and hard. But we're sure you'll agree that the view from...