Word: swears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Greenwillow; $13) is comic art. Some 80 years after the poem was composed, Painter Ted Harrison has complemented the work with bold and antic landscapes of the Yukon in the days of the gold rush. McGee, frozen over, demands, "I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." His listener agrees, only to find a surprise when he opens the furnace door. Sam is inside, burbling, "Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm." A one-joke poem; still...
...jails] are like home--clean floors, clean sheets, and someone to swear at," he said, adding that his disgruntlement with the jails and the social problems they reflected led him to enter politics...
...other hand, my God has about as much in common with Oral Roberts' blackmailer as with the nothingness of the atheists. And Jim and Tammy Bakker's shenanigans are almost enough to make me swear off organized religion forever...
...shine to the intrepid Marine, and his replacement, Robert McFarlane, looked upon Ollie as another son, but one in need of supervision. Only Admiral John Poindexter seemed relatively immune to Ollie's charm, but North still almost always got his way with Poindexter. Among his male colleagues, North could swear like a dirtwater Marine, but when a woman entered the room, he cleaned up his speech. Says one woman at the White House: "With women, he did his Gary Cooper, aw shucks routine...
Norman Mailer '43 said tough guys don't dance. I guess good guys don't swear...