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...memo reminded the Bush staff of their desperate mission: "It is imperative that all surrogates are giving the same message." In other words, screw the truth! What about integrity, you say? Don't be so naive. This is a political campaign. Trivial concepts like truth and integrity are insignificant when compared to winning the right to occupy that fancy house on Pennsylvania Avenue for four more years...
...pretty hard to screw up eggs andpancakes," he said...
There was also a touch of anti-Harvard sentiment last night. Presenters riddled, "How many Harvard students does it take to screw in a light bulb?" (Answer: One. He just holds it while the world revolves around...
...date compilation of slang and jargon; but it makes no pretense at distinguishing between the useful and the awful. Where the fourth edition labels slang as such, the fifth prefers "nonformal," an ambiguous term at best. The innocent "flaky" is nonformal -- but so is the vulgar "screw." The Black English verb "dis" (short for disrespect) is nonformal; so is "deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives...
Dean Martin did what he wanted -- drink, screw around, play golf, make a bundle -- with little effort and on his own terms. The son of Italian immigrants, Dino Crocetti learned fast the American genius for appropriation. He swiped somebody else's voice, altered his name twice and his nose once, sold 105% of himself to early investors. He took plenty from everyone and didn't give back much but a kind of low-level radiance. He was a gambler, yes, but even more a dealer; it was the trade he plied as a youth in Ohio gambling joints and later...