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...They do, the damn frogs, and I had the misfortune of drinking it once. It took me four years to get over that slop. It was made from the wax in the ears of Clemenceau...
...sharpen my pencil?" "Mrs. Oscar Robertson, may I go to the rest room?" When the Royals are in town, Robertson hunches over the kitchen table and meticulously helps Yvonne keep her school records, takes her dancing (he is accomplished in such steps as the "horse" and the "slop"), spins his records of Fats Domino, and resolutely stays in bed when she goes off to work. "Maybe he thinks he's not going to get enough sleep," says Yvonne. "Maybe all pro basketball players are tired all the time...
Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my ham. Freezeth river, turneth liver, Damm you, sing: Goddamm...
...Strange Slop. As one of the famed "Eight" of Manhattan's Ashcan School, Prendergast bore the brunt of the attacks on the 1908 Ashcan show* that marked the first revolt against the formal nudes and innocuous landscapes that dominated turn-of-the-century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle...
...month-big money in Greece. Once they got to the Dominican Republic, they were ordered to draw uniforms and arms as members of Trujillo's foreign legion. When they refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo. They ate slop, were beaten unconscious with clubs and wire whips, scalded with boiling water. Treatment got better when they agreed to try soldiering, but after two months they still refused to enlist and were tossed back into jail. The Greek embassy in Washington finally negotiated their freedom...