Word: shagging
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...staring at the sunny sky in amazement. You often get that kind of thing in baseball. Once before a game in St. Louis, Bob Uecker, then a journeyman catcher, now an ABC announcer, borrowed a tuba from a band that was playing on the field and used it to shag flies. "Everybody loved it," says Uecker. "Except the tuba player...
...something more than glossy s.-and-m. porn, that every little welt raised on its nameless heroine's body had a meaning all its own. The novel, it was earnestly proposed, explored the paradox that only in slavery can one find perfect freedom. A flogging here, a gang shag there, these are a small price to pay for release from the endless naggings of free will...
...blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans who's loosing her battle for the shag-cut brown-haired, fishy-moustached, brown-oiled, flat-faced stud in the bleach spotted blue sweatshirt who passes God-knowing glances to the skinny, tight-asses, thin-featured queen of the joint. The Oly tastes pretty good here in 1975 doubleknit cowboy heaven with pinball and Pong and ethnic diversity...
...undoubtedly makes him so successful in his conquests is that he looks like Warren Beatty. The movie might even be titled Advertisements for Myself. In any event, Shampoo concerns the day (election evening of 1968, to be precise) when George's little kingdom comes crashing down round his shag...
...narrator does not display the same literary tact in regard to other aspects of the Holmes figure. The detective's penchants for frenetic violin playing, for contemplative shag-smoking, and for energetic telegraphing are all thrust into the story because they were effective in the original. The sacred Holmes sleuthing ritual--the animal-like absorption in the tracing of a clue--has been neatly reduced to a series of yelps, whines, and tremors that has been blandly placed into the narrative...