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...Mississippi Division of Law Enforcement, and "they don't want to spoil the view by putting up a seawall." Some residents' apathy was shaken, however. Said a weary beach-house survivor: "From now on, when they say 'hurricane,' I'm heading north and I ain't gonna stop until I get to Memphis...
...Estelle Evans) is a gentle, worldly-wise philosopher who works as a domestic. Newt (Kyle Johnson) is about as likely an adolescent hero as Andy Hardy, waking Mom up in the middle of the night and listening wide-eyed as she dispenses such homespun homilies as "This town ain't all a good place and it ain't all a bad place. It's like the fruit on a tree -some's good, some...
...panelists were not paid; most regarded the job as more fun than work. Their findings were carefully considered by the editors; in more than 600 definitions, the new dictionary includes a usage note that gives a percentage figure on approval-disapproval. For ain't, the usage note states in part: " 'ain't I' is unacceptable in writing other than that which is deliberately colloquial, according to 99% of the panel, and unacceptable in speech to 84%." Happily, the panel was as vigilant against affectation as it was against vulgarity; the note on ain't says...
...street youths, who were paid $70 per week, seemed to understand their responsibility too. "Listen, man," one said, "the money ain't the only reason I'm doing this job. I'm doing something to teach 'the man.' He come in here all cocksure about the ghetto. These guys don't know nothing except their two cars and sweet life. I'm showing 'em where it's at. If they don't catch it today, they never going...
...there something obscene in playing Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" while Wyatt and Billy shoot past the shacks of the Deep South's black population ("If the sun refuse to shine/I don't mind, I don't mind/If the mountains fell in the sea/Let it be, it ain't me/All right, 'cos I got my own world to look through/And I ain't gonna copy...