Word: strapped
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...even though they're "screwballs," as he says in his book. America warped him, making him grow up like a hero out of a Merle Haggard song; his father died when Hoffa was seven, forcing him to leave school at fourteen to help support the family. Mama used the strap on Jimmy plenty and he loved...
...brassiere strap hung errant and anomalous." But these lapses are overwhelmed by the novel's bitterly comic vision: a world in which an eleven-year-old boy known as "JR" parlays a bid to supply the Army with 9,000 gross of wooden picnic forks into a multinational conglomerate. Barely literate, he works out of a telephone booth and gets his leads by subscribing to dozens of commercial magazines and catalogues...
...that point Grady and the anti-power plant faction may literally strap themselves to the pillars of the vacant homes that remain on the power plant site, creating a highly visual presentation of Harvard bulldozing a community. The outcome may yield some political compromise, but it is more likely that by that time Harvard will have gone too far to be intimidated by bad public relations, on the eve of construction...
...that point several things could happen: Mission Hill residents may literaly strap themselves to the building, creating a visible, ugly, and graphic presentation of Harvard bulldozing over community people for all to see, This could cause a fierce political reaction and force the BRA or the medical institutions to back down and compromise...
...evil doctor, leeringly played by Tim Curry, has fashioned a blond centerfold playmate, Rocky (Kim Milford), who is sort of male. Frank wears torn black mesh stockings, black garters and black lipstick. Rocky is clad in something smaller than swim trunks and larger than a jock strap. He tenses his torso and biceps like an old Charles Atlas ad plugging rock muscularity...