blowed

Chapter Three, "Thursday Night at Project Blowed," returns to an explicit focus on the Los Angeles hip hop underground with an ethnographic account of an evening at the freestyle workshop, contextualized within vividly-described neighborhood sights, sounds, and smells.

For Fud was born in 'aught-six, and when the Great Blizzard of 'fifty-seven blowed through New York in darkest March and buried the streets from Sheridan Square to Minton's and farther, the crews come out with their plows and shovels, and two days after, one truck turned the corner from Times Square onto 47th, and there on the left was a snow- bank big as Kelly's Stables with two legs sticking out at a angle in tuxedo pants.

Someone puts up a straw house, and the wolf blowed everything.

In another passage, Thoreau conveys the ocean's unsentimental and total dominion while simultaneously illustrating the inexplicable and infinite pattern of gains and losses that nature weaves and into which living creatures must accommodate themselves to forestall physical mortality: The light-house keeper said that when the wind blowed strong on to the shore, the waves ate fast into the bank....

The boy lets fly: "Well, see, I wuz just thinkin' 'bout the shame and humiliation I wuz feelin' while I watched you let your deputy git his brains blowed out, then seein' you git beat like an old rug in front'a all my friends and havin' ta realize that my Paw is nuthin' but a yellowbellied coward and how I gotta run away from home now so's nobody will know I'm yore son....

of tokens Nathan (SLI) felled 4 comed 3 catched 1 swimmed 1 Anne (MLU) bited 1 borned 1 hiddened 1 lied (instead of lay) 1 runned 1 thoughted 1 Becky (MLU) stealed 4 broked 2 comed 2 brokened 1 sawed 1 Carl (MLU) broked 8 comed 8 runned 3 catched 1 doned 1 falled 1 goned 1 Warren (MLU) comed 11 stucked 4 blowed 1 breaked 1 broked 1 Table 1.

In any case, in this translation, Sancho says things like: "I'll be blowed, gents, if the author of that book you've got there doesn't want to get on bad terms with me" (II, 59; 889).

"That million-dollar Buttrick order," he said, "is blowed up, gone with the wind, down the drain, and lost in the deep blue sea!

"They all think I'm going to die," she thought, "but I'm blowed if that's going to happen.

Sometimes, too, the message gets slipped in under the humor, as in "I knowed a man and he was foreman and he was so stingy that when three of his men on the job got blowed up, he docked 'em for the time they was up in the air." A comic commentary on a man who has sold out, it is also a reminder of the dangerous and low-paying jobs many black men had to accept.

Well I'll be blowed. As soon as the draw was made it was obvious that trouble was a certainty.

PHEBE: And to keep my mouth shut when the wind blowed -

Triggered by McMurphy, the gradual revival of Bromden's own humanity and self-esteem is consistently described in terms of physical growth: "I looked down and saw how my foot was bigger than I'd ever remembered it, like McMurphy's just saying it had blowed it twice its size" (210).

All through de day de ole horn wuz blowed, to git up in de mo'nings, to go to de big kitchen out in Mars' back yard ter eat, to go to de fields, an' to come in an' on lak dat all day".(41)

It blowed hard against the northern shore about an eighth of a mile distant on our left, and there was just as much sea as our shallow canoe would bear, without our taking unusual care.