Word: sumbitch
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...Golden Pond. At the beginning of the film, as Fonda lumbers about in gusts of frail menace, he angles toward playing a New England Lear with overcareful pungency. One gets the sense of Fonda's working hard both to convince the viewer that Norman is one ornery old sumbitch and to distance the character from the person we believe we have come to know as Henry Fonda. But coming as it does just after Fonda's autobiography, his performance in On Golden Pond ultimately becomes a courageous act of revelation from one of the shiest men in a very public...
...West Texas learns to survive." Strauss made his fortune in law, banking and television stations. Though not an avid swimmer, Strauss built a large pool at his luxurious Dallas home so that he could look out and, as he puts it, say to himself: "Strauss, you are a rich sumbitch...
...presidency: "They've done it before, and they'll do it again." At his opponent's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Campaign Press Chief Hank Raebun phoned Organization Candidate Lloyd McBride at home in St. Louis. "We're doin' good, buddy," he crowed. "We got this sumbitch beat...
...there, I'm thinking, 'Try everything you want. Rub up the ball. Move the fielders around. Throw me hard stuff, soft stuff. Try anything. I'm still going to hit that ball.' God, do I love to hit that little round sumbitch out of the park and make 'em say 'Wow!' " Opposing pitchers like Baltimore's perennial 20-game winner, Jim Palmer, believe him. "When I'm pitching against Jackson," says Palmer, "I'm happy just keeping the ball inside the park...
...another example: At the end of the film, Nicholson is again faced with a crisis: he is now alienated from both his bequeathed identity (gifted pianist) and his assumed one (oil rigger cum sumbitch). The moment is poignant enough, but the response of theprotagonist of Five Easy Pieces is only a depressingly immature reassertion of character consistency-he blows town. When what is desperately needed is a fresh way to look at something, we are given something to look at. Apocalyptic world-views are fashionable, and it's a respectable ambition to depict what it is that drives...