Word: rubbishing
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Garrigues, cornered by reporters in Rome as he was about to set off for Seville, said stiffly: "It is the duty of a gentleman not to reply to such questions." In London, Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, chimed in, calling the rumors "rubbish," and even the former Kennedy White House nanny, Maud Shaw (see BOOKS), got into the act. "I often told Mrs. Kennedy she should think of remarrying," Maud said. "But she would look at me so distressed and say, 'Oh, Miss Shaw, I just couldn't ever...
Heckling is an honored British tradition, and Wilson, for one, thrives on quick parries with dissenters. At a recent rally, when a heckler shouted "Rubbish!" Wilson shot back: "We'll take up your special interest in a moment, sir." But neither Wilson nor anyone else could always cope with the current ragging. Every major candidate had been shouted down repeatedly, and the Labor Party temporarily barred from its rallies a BBC television crew that was filming a documentary on hecklers on the grounds that being on-camera only inspires more extreme behavior...
People who know her better say that she is merely shy. "If Indira seems curt," says a friend, "it is because she doesn't waste time talking rubbish." Says another: "She's been a lonely person all her life, and now she will be lonelier than ever. All the troubles will stop at her desk, and she is fully aware...
Samuel Johnson: Vile rubbish. Women in the eighteenth century had all the power. Madame de Stael practically made the French revolution...
...took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau. It was sort of a cubistic grotto, cluttered with such objects as the plaster-of-Paris-dipped socks of a fellow artist. The Merzbau was also...