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who enters into this mephistophelian pact has a few screws loose.
Indeed, we live in the golden age of attaching one thing to another thing--bolts, rivets, screws, glue, tape, Velcro, staples, giant rubber bands, various forms of welding, some of which are practiced by cool robots, suction cups, funtac--I could go on.
The News of the Screws (News of the World).
Our editor suggested to me yesterday that it's a somewhat Clintonesque marriage--Tony has a mistress whom he fucks rather joylessly and with whom he never has an actual conversation, but he's really dependent on his wife (although unlike with our president, you have the sense that Tony screws around mostly because that's what mob bosses are supposed to do rather than out of real need).
For 36 years, the United States has resolutely tightened the screws on trade with Cuba in an effort to topple Castro's regime.