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...even try to lampoon his scores. There are few pauses in the breakneck pace and very little in the way of real invention. Still, to any survivor of a real Ring cycle, it's refreshing to hear Wotan yell to his old enemy Alberich at the end, "Are you fryin' or drownin...
Kennedy's call brought out the dreamers, the tinkerers, the organizers, the suppliers. Lyndon Johnson never tired of telling the story of how Americans had found Teflon "for your old fryin' pan" on the way to the moon. But there was heavy counterpoint to this melody of invention. Nikita Khrushchev raged at Kennedy in Vienna in 1961. The Berlin Wall went up. The Soviets tested their huge hydrogen bomb, the one U.S. scientists had said they would not have for years...
WOODY ALLEN USED TO JOKE, when death seemed imminent, his life passed before his eyes, "I saw myself going fishin' down at the fishin' hole, fryin' up a mess o' catfish, and goin' down to the general store to buy a piece of Gingham for Emmy Lou. But then I realized this was not my life, here I was about to die and the wrong life was passing before my eyes...
...evening. Splitting the air with a high, resounding falsetto, he yodeled up and down the scale like a goatherd piping to his flock. Said Parsons: "I would holler my holler, and by the time I got home and had the mules unhitched, Mother would have the ham a-fryin' and the peas a-cookin...
...referred to a bull as an animal. He referred contemptuously to fistfights as dogfights. Oldtimers in the cattle country were said to be alkalied when "they knowed all the lizards by their first names, except the younger set." A young fellow, or a small man, was said to be fryin' size. When the cowboy got drunk he liked to have everyone know it - he said he cut his wolf loose. Once four young cowpunchers rode their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer was having a drink. When the drummer complained to the bartender that...
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