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Of The Enforcer (1976) , Schickel notes, "Certainly today, attitudes having radically changed, Clint would retract [the movie's] casual contempt for homosexuals, admittedly a feature of his early action films."
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The Sailor's Wordbook , published more than a hundred years ago, offers this explanation: “ `Son of a gun' is an epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree and was originally applied to boys born afloat.
The WP and NYT go inside with news that in an alternative universe would be explosive--a federal judge's finding that two cabinet secretaries, Interior's Bruce Babbitt and Treasury's Robert Rubin, are in civil contempt for failing to produce records of accounts held in trust for Indians by the government.
And there have been hundreds more explaining why Dole, whose contempt for people who believe in that kind of magic is a matter of public record, nonetheless chose to accept their program--and chose one of the most prominent believers as his running mate.