King Kong?
Does he make any sound? I remember that Fay Wray screams, but I don’t remember about Kong.
In American slang, hitting a ball like King Kong means hitting it a long way. Babe Ruth, probably the most famous American baseball player, could hit the ball like King Kong. Fortissimo singing means singing like King Kong. Susan Boyle sings like King Kong.
I think that the United States, with the exception of Hong Kong, must have been the most capitalist country during the twentieth century, but the United States has a socialist side as well
I found a really cowabunga cool example of how that works.
In my Great Grandmother’s stack of books, I found a book about a family which had lived in a housing project in Washington DC for three generations. Like many of her books, it sucked me into its vortex, but I don’t remember the title.
The author was a reporter for the Washington Post. The family had lived on the American welfare system for fifty years. The grandmother, who had been a sharecropper, had come to Washington DC in the 1930’s. She had raised her children and her grandchildren in the housing project. None of them had ever been employed or worked for wages.
Cowarbunga, It sounds so grim, but he found candles, burning beacons blazing bright not really on a bluff, more like hidden in a barranca.
One Sunday, he went to the housing project to interview one of the family members. When he arrived, he could not find a parking space because Cadillac, Lincoln, Chrysler and all manner of luxury cars filled the streets. Of course he wondered how people, who could not earn their own rent or food, could afford luxury cars. He found a surprising answer to that question.
The luxury cars did not belong to people who lived in the project. They belonged to people and the children of people who had lived in the project, and they had left the project because they had successful careers, They came back to the project to attend the church, and in the process littered the street with their cars, the accidental signs of their success.
Clearly, he had written the book about the wrong people. Instead of writing about the family that lived and languished in the project, he should have written about the people who left to find a living in the world outside the project.
So anyway, the United States has an odd mix of capitalism and socialism.