Word: rootin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their trust when he visited the home of one of his clients, who was calling her hogs "Arnold" and "Porter." A neighbor scolded her, saying Arnold & Porter were only trying to help them, and she should show more respect. The answer came, "I know that, they are out there rootin' for us, aren't they...
...time, he cut down on his production of gallery art and began to turn himself into a rootin'-tootin' mixture of Zen monk and Texas daddy, full of Jack Daniel's and koans, moving from one collective project to the next and plunging into a sequence of causes. These have run from EAT (Experiments...
...radio broadcast in the U.S. called George Patton "a rootin', tootin', hip-shootin' commander whose chief ambition is to meet Marshal Rommel in a personal tank battle, just the two of them, squared off in a duel to the death." Patton encouraged that flamboyant image until finally he threatened to degenerate into self-parody. He once presented a speaker to his troops by saying: "Men, I want to introduce to you the noblest work of God-a killer!" With his ivory-handled pistols and magnificently bloodthirsty battle speeches, his dashing tank tactics and the almost sinister boyishness...
...leading lady, leading lady, I've always wanted to be a Broadway leading lady: The rootin' tootin'est Annie or a madcap Mame or Dolly, That sad and funny girl Fanny, Nelly Forbush or unsinkable Molly...
...meet a shady lady when his rendezvous is suddenly thwarted by a policeman. One of his best series resulted when in 1967 he came across a book by Robert W. Service, whose poetry he had loved as a child. Service's Yukon saloons,^ Canadian Mounties and rootin' tootin' shoot-em-ups meshed perfectly with Copley's scampering W.C. Fields style and his love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming at all"). Whether waged with sword...