Word: shit
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...they'd land on the back wheel, cackling. Stop for a beer, watch a few others come up, and then go right back down and start over again. "Do you practice this much?" I asked one man, who stood at the top in his cycle club colors. "Practice? Shit, man, this is for fun. Why would we practice...
...through the midnight movies or eat ice cream on Bailey's shaky chairs. There are only so many people reading poetry by the Charles you can stand--especially if you're working in a wheelchair factory. It behooved you to make the hundred bucks. You have a shit job and after a while you feel like shit. One afternoon in Hamilton, someone came by under the palm trees muttering and shaking his head. My friends thought it might be another assassination--it was that kind of muttering. When we found out it was Elvis who died, we didn't much...
...wasted life." Or this soldier, on his first battle: "I kept thinking, 'If only I could talk to the cocksucker firing at me, we'd get along, everything would be all right.' I just had this overwhelming feeling that...we're just pawns in this fucking thing, throwing the shit at each other." These soldiers seem to distinguish something about Vietnam that set it apart from other wars. Unfortunately, they don't explain what it is. So we must be tantalized by the idea (probably correct, I think) that the ugliness of Vietnam was unique for those who fought...
...genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably was closer to popular sentiment when he plugged his Sony with a .38, explaining to his manager, who lay wounded by the richochet, in that wonderful Memphis drawl--"Nobody should have to put up with that shit...
...make the characters seem affected, label-crazy people. Their present is stilted. Unfortunately, even the folkloric tropics suffer under the slaps of some heavy-handed metaphors, particularly the poor fishes who are made to listen to "the beating of hooves" which belong to clouds (?!?!). Worse, Jadine screams "Horse-shit!" and the "avocado tree standing by the side of the road, heard her, having really seen a horse's shit, thought she probably misused the word." The sentence is pretty misused too and just falls flat on the page...