Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write the script he hired William Goldman, a longtime crony and writer of the film that made Redford a superstar, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His work was apparently both very good and very bad. He licked the narration problems posed by the book, carving a straight, simple dramatic line. But he also put heavy emphasis on crude news room humor. Bernstein was quoted as saying that the script read like a Henny Youngman jokebook. Another reporter retitled it Butch and Sundance Bring Down the Government, while Bradlee recalls it as "a caricature of us?tough-guy reporters...
...exuberance, maybe--but he greases his way out of most of the beartraps with little twists of detail. On his third album, "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time," for instance, he describes passing through a fading town called Ringling. It has all the potential for being another Bogdanovichian retarded-kid-sweeping-the-middle-of-the-street song, but in the middle Buffett sings: Across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans been there 27 years. Imagine all the heartaches and tears in 27 years of beers...
...from the "fractured" nature of college life by providing a haven where girls of common interests can, in the lingo of liberation, unite. For to say they seek a large cross section of Cliffies by individually drawing up lists of twenty candidates for selection--who are they trying to kid? The final list will not represent a cross section of the female student body, but rather a list of common friends. Need I say that in all eventuality, their final list will be one of women with common interests and backgrounds, most likely from the East, educated in private schools...
...altar of Black Ken dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...
...weird. You get paid for watching a kid and then you turn around and you gotta pay him for watching...