Word: goddam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same as ever for distance but I'll be goddam if I can read--except--and this is funny--under a big umbrella outdoors in a bright sun: under those conditions I seem to read even newspaper type exactly as well without my glasses as with my distance ones (not reading ones--or anyway, almost the same.) If I use my right lens as a magnifying glass and pull it away. I can see as clearly for a fifth of a second...
...This hedgehogness beats at my brain," he says. "I'm sick of feeling the same goddam thrill--I sort of want to fox it, just go out. I'd just like to be a doctor--I'd love to be a politician. Great politicians are great actors, I think: Caesar, Goethe, Gandhi--they're acting, but in the stuff of life...
When Stockman arrived at the White House, he was still complaining to Reagan aides that he had been misled by Greider. One of them took Stockman aside just before he entered the Oval Office and warned, "Don't go in and blame it on the goddam article. You and everybody else know that you made a serious mistake." One of the first things Stockman did during the 45-minute lunch with Reagan was offer his resignation. To Stockman's surprise, the President said, "I'll have to give you an answer on that later. There are some...
...appear a tad too naive to be believed) causes an unbalanced young woman whom Michael has tried to protect to commit suicide. In that tragedy's aftermath, he says to the reporter: "Couldn't you just see her? Couldn't you stop scribbling, put down your goddam ballpoint and see her?" It is a question all journalists should put to themselves frequently, and we are in this film's debt for raising it. Absence of Malice does not invalidate All the President's Men. But with entertainment values-and a moral sense-every...
...Profession is a timely and masterful foray into the practice and penetralia of this modern mystery religion. Timely because since the golden age of piety of the fifties--when Salinger's Seymour Glass frolicked blithely with bananafish while his new bride chatted with her mother about what all the "goddam" analysts thought about that peculiar young man--psychoanalysis has been receding from, the public eye. After these years of gestalt therapy, est, and, yes, hot tubs (who can really believe that a neighborhood of fools sitting in a tub of scalding water is therapy?), it seems right to return...