Word: spit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House say they were not shown a draft of the letter in advance. Still, as one senior official at State said, "it reflects thinking at the top." Added a White House aide very much at the top: "We don't feel like just sitting there and letting them spit in our faces...
...spit-in-the-face" of obstacles attitude espoused by the residents and their leader has contributed greatly to the success of this community. "I have, despite those turkeys in Washington, just hired two more staff members, and raised salaries," laughs McCue. Regardless of tight purse strings and the scorn and lack of public interest, this TC works towards saving drug addicts--a social service many fail to acknowledge or recognize. At Boston's 350th anniversary celebration last year, throngs watched the fireworks and enjoyed cool refreshment by the Charles. Sixteen tons of ice cream. Good humor--a free gift from...
...motley mix of military equipment?U.S.-built M60 tanks, Soviet-supplied personnel carriers, field guns made in South Korea?gleamed in the sun, ready to roll, polished to spit-shine perfection...
...help from their director. Neame paces the film by putting a five-second pause between each line of dialogue, as if he were going to splice in an audience laugh track but forgot at the last minute. The dead time only further highlights the inanities Matthau and Clayburgh spit at each other. In an effort to create the stately atmosphere of the high court, Neame relies almost exclusively on close-up, static shots of the two principals inside their chambers. Without any camera movement, he creates a Bergman-like claustrophobia--ridiculously out of place in this comedy...
...argot. One man, a coal miner, says this of whites: "Just thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody lie and say their dirt is not dirt or they lie to us about their dirt. I know these are the rottenest people on God's earth, and they know...