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...Yahoo!" whooped Robert Byrd, the Senate majority leader. Standing on the dais in a crowded Washington banquet room, the usually dour West Virginia Democrat tore off his dinner jacket, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a fiddle and began sawing away. Some 1,300 hand-clapping, foot-stomping guests at the Washington Press Club's annual salute to Congress followed him through rousing choruses of Rye Whiskey, Cumberland Gap and the new Administration's anthem, Amazing Grace. "My word," cried one amused Senator, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings, "they're going to have us all born...
...also a man of many talents. Joe Perkins first came to our attention two years ago at the big Bruno-Bob Duckham match. As we were collecting our tickets a huge yahoo in a cowboy suit was threatening a security guard with a bullwhip. He was clearly out of his mind on one of a number of drugs. Violence seemed imminent. Just as the storm seemed likely to break a slender, unassuming young man stepped up to the gate. Tex was flailing his bullwhip, and it seemed very likely that the young man in the brown doubleknit suit would...
...restaurant advertises itself as "a great tradition since 1973." Wardens call solitary confinement cells "adjustment centers" or, worse, "meditation rooms." A letter from Dartmouth College describes a report on higher education financing as "containing arresting conclusions of almost watershed quality." Howard Cosell, a sports commentator with a gift for yahoo erudition, says of a quarterback: "I am impressed by the continuity of his physical presence...
This is a movie apparently constructed around a single picture, an image stuck in the back of someone's brain that should have stayed there. In any case, the crucial scene in Paperback Hero is the closing one. A small-town Canadian yahoo stands in the middle of the main street, decked out in gunbelt and stetson, calling for a Shootout with the local members of the Mounted Police. If such an image seems both unpromising and unlikely, what appears before and builds up to it is no better and not even as interesting...
Could it be that some clever yahoo in top circles has thought to repay the Swedes for their temerity in protesting the escalated brutality of our recent bombings in S.E. Asia by reducing their most prestigious institution to absurdity? Ernst Bacon Professor Emeritus Syracuse University