Word: turds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those are armadillo tracks," says Jim Baker. "And that's a coyote turd...
...Center C, Harvard) is something of a latter-day comedy classic, and unquestionably the best movie ever made about golf. The cast--including spiritualist Bill Murray, the ever-anal Ted Knight, and Rodney Danger-field--more than make up for the lame and tedious teen-love subplot. And the turd-in-the-swimming pool scene will undoubtedly serve as a humour benchmark for years to come...
...cant and iconography that fog perceptions. His highest value is individualism as evolved by Western civilization. He skips through history to find something rotten in Byzantium, the "delirium and horror of the East." There is also the calamity of modernist architecture: "Ubiquitous concrete, with the texture of turd and the color of an upturned grave." The flip side of this disgust is nostalgia. Though Brodsky overwhelms with startling insight and provocations, he is most affecting in "In a Room and a Half," an account of living with his parents in their small Leningrad apartment. There, behind armoires and bookshelves...
This being a family newspaper, much of it I can't report. But something curious caught my eye: "LiberAls Suck." Next to that, perhaps significantly, was a weatherbeaten clump of spearmint Bubble Yum which looked remarkably like a small chlorophyll turd...
...enraged and resentful Pappy. He writes to Pound after years of insults. "I send you my affectionate regards and to hell with you if you won't accept them." And to Hemingway. "So you go & compose a long letter full of various ways of saying that I'm a turd and all filled with expert blocks for undelivered blows. What the Hell! I never meant none of them things you say I couldn't have meant." The letters to Hemingway and Pound show the variety of MacLeish's voices. With Pound, he uses a crisp, precise telegraphese. Hemingway brings...