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...cowboy womanizer who is the turbulence at the center of Martin Ritt's 1963 film Hud, seems twice the size of Fast Eddie. He is a brawler with the looks of a fallen angel, and he sneers at emotion: "My mother loved me but she died." Hud is rotten. He is trying to have his father declared incompetent so he can sell his ranch to oilmen. But Newman gave him a crooked, loser-winner smile that caught at the heart, and although the script didn't really justify it, he was a scapegrace hero...
...outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly nasty contributions: sleaze (as in, "There was a lot of sleaze at the party," meaning much of the transcendentally rotten) has passed from the homosexual vocabulary into punk, and is headed for mainstream English...
...correctly observes that the Catholic tradition has never swerved from condemnation of homosexual behavior. Then you solemnize that "this teaching has laid the church open to charges that its attitude is out of step with the times." I do not find this an unfortunate situation. The times are rotten, and the church is out of step with them. That speaks well for the church...
...that washes up daily. Says County Supervisor William Wallace: "If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet." Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities of oil and natural gas through fissures that geoloists call seeps. Says Petroleum Geologist Robert Gaal of the California State lands commission: "There are thousands of them down there...
...League pennants and one World Series. Twelve out of 14 years, they have finished first or second. Among all managers, only Connie Mack had as many 100-win seasons (five) and only Joe McCarthy had more (six). Weaver did it largely by being, in his own words,"a truthful, rotten little s.o.b." Though he once screamed at an umpire, "Only you, me and God know the truth!" irreverence has served him as a kind of creed. "Skip, don't you want me to walk with the Lord?" a born-again outfielder, Pat Kelly, asked him when Weaver once implored...