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...wonder Van Dyke isn't getting out. "People say, Van Dyke, why in the hell don't you retire?" he says. "Well, hell, I don't hunt and fish. I don't play golf. My wife won't let me chase girls, so what else is there?" And like any other great oilman, he's still got big dreams. "I'm taking all the properties we have in West Africa, going to make a great big sale, probably to the Chinese, the Indians, going to keep about a 15% interest." A deal like that could make him a billionaire...
...apartment deposits. Olivier told a gathering of planners in New Orleans that FEMA'S trailer parks had been held up by EPA requirements for an environmental study. "They told us that we have to protect the endangered species," said Olivier, who then delivered his applause line. "I told them, 'Hell, we are the endangered species!'" Andrews says the agency does not mandate such studies...
...hyperbole (employees come to work “on the balls of their feet”). These rhetorical tics are part of an effort to make the writing conversational. Chouinard tosses in everything from the second person to quips like, “When I die and go to hell, the devil is gong to make me the marketing director for a cola company” and “Get out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat.” This folksy tone is stiff and unconvincing. The book also occasionally reads...
...Black: that simple phrase, applied to the look and sound of the man it described, contained the heaven-and-hell contradictions in the personality of Johnny Cash. He could be a backwoods minister, warning of the Apocalypse in an Old Testament voice, or Satan himself, smiling sourly at the world's capacity for hurting itself...
...John's first wife Vivien (Ginnifer Goodwin) - ?a wonderful lady? who ?went through a lot of hell with him,? in the recollection of Cash's buddy and fellow Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones - is reduced to a small-minded sort with selfish middle-class dreams. ?My mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career,? Vivien and John's daughter Kathy Cash told AP this week. ?That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home...