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...Goddam Lawyers. The second report on the scandal was written by a general and a civilian lawyer who investigated charges that West Point defense attorneys for the accused cadets had been harassed and penalized for doing their job. Some of the charges proved to be true. General Ulmer complained: "The goddam lawyers are ruining the Army." The general, the report declared, "does not understand the role of the military lawyer. In our opinion, his remarks were unjustified and harassing, as claimed." Some West Pointers feel Ulmer has been made "the fall guy" for the entire scandal. He is being replaced...
...minute check on patrolmen, even spewing out suggested time limits for each particular call. "Christ," explodes Patrolman William Hill, "I go out to where a guy is beating the hell out of his wife, and I'm supposed to solve his problem in 20 minutes be cause the goddam computer says that...
...yard goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), who has described his production chief as a "goddam Vine Street Jesus." As much as his uncertain health and assaults of melancholy, it is good taste that ultimately undoes Stahr and permits Brady and the board of directors...
...happened to be good was the original 1932 version of Showboat, when Paul Robeson changed the racist, stereotypical lines of "Old Man River" into a song of defiance, causing Oscar Hammerstein, the lyricist, to stomp off the practice stage muttering "Let the son of a bitch write his own goddam song...
...with a movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that...