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...said O'Hara, "but you have to do it. Otherwise everybody would be doing anything they want out they-ah. And to the guy on the street who goes to work, it means we'll come if he calls. You have to have something, right? It's bettah than nuthin...
...sheer passage of time has helped to heal some wounds. But it has left a certain fatalism. In Viet Nam, the G.I.'s absurdist, shrugging slogan was "It don't mean nuthin'." Today Jim Garnett, a Seattle carpenter who served as an Army supply clerk, says, "It was just something we all went through. Like when you were a kid and your old man comes home drunk at night. He wakes everybody up, everybody knows what's going on, and it makes everyone real uncomfortable. But in the morning, no one talked about...
...campaign had come to seem a sort of fixture in the American mind, like a long-running TV series by Norman Lear. It became a buzz in the background, sharp clusters of words emerging now and then ("Where's the beef?" . . . "You ain't seen nuthin' yet!"), the candidates orating in sound bites as they looped through the media markets. The contest was a procession of internal defeats and victories (Mondale won the first debate, Reagan tied the second, and so on), and yet by definition it was all inconclusive, conjectural, a pageant of popular mood capable...
Then those two losses. Ya know, it's almost like he planned them. I mean you gotta figure that Harvard was gonna lose at least once the first month--they always do and so why not do it when the damn game doesn't count for nuthin', not even for beans...
Well I gotta be goin' now, got big things to do if ya catch my drift. But I'll tell ya one more thing, and don't ya tell no one ya spoke to me or nuthin', but ya can be sure that ol' Joe is havin' a mighty nice little chuckle to himself this week...