Word: gushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long enough at a party with someone you've just met, nodding silently and saying "oh yes" in the right places while they talk, you can make them lose control. An anecdote will run on to become a ramble, a desperate stream of words, and finally a torrential gush of non-sequential gibberish that will make the speaker blush and lunge madly for the nearest door...
When we walk in the door, one of Paul's house-mates Greg, is doing an experiment in the kitchen. He teaches science to ninth graders, and he's showing the experiment to Susan and another woman whose name I miss. The experiment makes hot ammonia gush up into a glass bulb, turning red in the process. It works. Greg is pleased, Paul introduces me to everyone...
Peckinpah seems perfectly aware of all this, but instead of trying to do some thing about it, he puts her down - lit erally. She and McQueen stow away in a garbage truck and come spilling out in a gush of trash onto the town dump. Peckinpah's chuckling is almost audible...
...then quite abruptly, and strangely, given my initial gush and my baseball questions, our conversation turned to what was on his mind. This was in 1967; his son was home from Viet Nam and having trouble with drugs. It was a situation he didn't understand, a mystery. I remember that his voice wasn't as boyish or incisive as he reasoned with his anxiety...
SOMETIMES it was difficult to tell who the Democratic presidential candidate was, George McGovern or Edward Kennedy. Whenever Kennedy appeared with McGovern, the crowd invariably doubled. Time and again, cheering spectators would brush past the nominee to gush over an embarrassed Ted. McGovern had trouble articulating bread-and-butter issues for man-in-the-street Democrats-a task that comes easy for Kennedy. While living with impending defeat this fall, Democrats dreamed of victory next time with Ted. No wonder that before the final votes were counted, Kennedy was being touted...