Word: spadefuls
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...thing—feudalism wasn’t so fun, either, and anyone who has sat in on one of Harvard’s endless committee meetings knows that it takes a long time to do very little here. But sometimes it’s important to call a spade a spade...
...Stan” called “Loretta”—it too is about a crazy fan and the travails they undertake. Instead of Eminem’s trite sympathy, however, we have Smith’s blithe dismissal. He is real enough to call a spade a spade and a whack-job a whack...
...With the Wind sold a million copies in its first seven months. After the movie appeared, Rhett Butler was irreversibly Clark Gable. Scarlett O'Hara was Vivien Leigh. Mitchell's prose withered to the irrelevance of an architect's blueprint after the house is built. Dashiell Hammett created Sam Spade. Humphrey Bogart became Sam Spade. The idea of a character becomes imprisoned in the body of the incarnator, and even the creator cannot liberate the prisoner. The character has acquired features and hair and costume. But something valuable, the subjective suggestiveness that hangs around the edges of words and comes...
FINALLY! A PUBLICATION THAT HAS THE guts to call a spade a spade. This behavior of overprotective parents has gone on far too long. Parents, shape up or ship out! School boards, hire superintendents with the courage to instill some discipline in students. Only when parents stop spoiling their children and administrators stop being "politically correct" will this bad behavior cease...
...front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa, on the eastern coast...