Word: fucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their potency when delivered by a narrator whose life centers around probing the limits of alcoholism and sexual perversion. Obscenities, apparently varied and clever in the original Russian, flow steadily and unendingly through Limonov's rocky prose. These have been translated with a singular lack of inspiration into either "fuck" or "shit," and serve rather to dull one's sensibilities than to shock them. Likewise, Eddie's staggering feats of drinking become banal with repetition. Thankfully, vodka does not interfere with the lucidity of either his narration or his pain. Although he describes his own unhappiness and self-degradation with...
...Democratic Society (SDS), rushed into the offices of the Center, chasing out staff members and physically assaulting those who resisted. They gave Benjamin H. Brown, director of the Fellows Program, a serious gash above the ear, and once inside the building, they painted the slogans 'Pig' and 'Fuck US Imperialism' on the interior walls...
...life was before me, I felt. Whatever of it was left, was at last before me. I would not die in the grinding exasperation of the aged turned to stone by their fear of the stone that will lie on them, no I would find Nefertiri and I would fuck Her. The thought of my cock in Her, my agony in Her honey, my fatigue in Her wealth, my pride in Her royal privacy, my beating heart in Her sweet quiver, my peasant meet in the sauce of a Queen, my sword in Usermare's [the Pharsolt's] skin!--every...
Last month slogans of "Fuck You Jews" and "Jews Are Swines" were painted on one predominantly Jewish fraternity house, swastikas and anti-semitic slogans were spray-painted on another, and the Jewish vice president of the university's Students' Association said he received a threatening phone call...
...succeeds, then the play represents Fugard's conviction that the human heart can conquer all obstacles. But if he doesn't, if Hallie slips away into a world of prejudice and fear, then we must concur with Hallie's statement, "Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change...