Word: goats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activity is contentious and acute. To an editor: "When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split." On James M. Cain (Double Indemnity): "Every thing he writes smells like a billy goat." On Somerset Maugham: His gift "belongs to the great judge or the great diplomat ... He would have made a great Roman." On John P. Marquand: "Beautiful detailed observation and the total effect of a steel engraving with no col or at all. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway...
...Paris-Moscow"- which depended largely on loans from the Soviet Union-was intellectually crippled by the Russian cultural apparatchiks who wrote its catalogue, although much of the art itself was, in either case, extraordinary. The best of the three was "Paris-Berlin," although one needed the stamina of a goat to traverse the screes and piles of evidence it presented. But in all three shows there was the lure of epic subject, rightly presented by Director Pontus Hulten and his staff as one of the great dramas of cultural history...
...critics have observed many times, the group then stopped trying very hard. Goat's Head Soup (1973), an album not nearly as bad as its reputation, nevertheless contained some very trite songs. It's Only Rock and Roll (1974) picked up that pace but fed more ammunition to those who claimed the Stones had outstayed their welcome. The whole business really hit bottom with Black and Blue, a musical change of course that simply flopped...
...time to write more than a prescription. No antibiotics then, and the farmers very witchcrafty. Full of folk remedies and possessed of hands too big for their animals." He regards his own small fingers. "That's why they came to me: I could operate on a sheep or goat without mangling the poor thing. Then it was large beasts. Today it's also dogs, cats, parakeets. And hamsters. I don't like to treat them; they bite." After one decade of practice, Herriot had compiled enough material to fill a book. After 30 years, he had enough...
Then too there was kinship with the suffering, with Jim Bra dy, especially; old Brady "the Bear," Brady the joker, the poker-faced inventor of Goat Gap Texas Chili and Captain Brady's Nightie Night, who wasn't kidding when he described his new position as "the toughest p.r. job in the world." And kinship with life, with Sarah Brady holding her husband's hand, waiting for the squeeze to be returned...