Word: jackassical
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...THIS weren't enough, Steinberg includes an appendix consisting of particularly cogent remarks by Rayburn, which he calls "Rayburnisms." It includes profundities like "The size of a man has nothing to do with his height" and "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...
...Then a very old man who was mowing his grass in his front garden looked up at me and said, "I wonder, boy, why you waste your time talking like that. You do realise, I suppose, that Coventry East would vote for the back end of a jackass if it was labelled Labour...
Many of his fans clearly do delight in the absence of jackass antics on the show. His nightly 90 minutes of generally intelligent conversation may not really be a cause for soul searching: they assume the shape of an intellectual peak partly because the rest of the TV schedule is so flat. Cavett himself has at times fumbled badly, by letting his guests run away with the show, by standing too much in awe of their prestige, or by being unprepared. He can also be a little less than sophisticated when he feels the spirit. Radical Jerry Rubin moved...
...going to be strictly commercial or that I was going to provide a radical alternative. But either would have been a false decision. I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. I hate the idea that acting like a jackass is beneath me, that I'm some kind of cultural uplifter...
...seems as if all writers in their subconscious hoped to hell that Frazier would beat Ali. Why? Because as they have said in not so many words, Frazier is an ignorant jackass, the kind of black man they like to have around. For a black man not to have thought about the black movement simply means he is not a "Black Man," but what most whites like...