Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director win against a studio? Maybe. Robert Altman's cut for The Gingerbread Man didn't get the response at test screenings that PolyGram wanted. So, although Altman threatened to take his name off the film, the studio had a new editor chop off eight minutes. But the new cut tested only a little better. The studio chose to keep the Altman version--and his name...
...head hurts. Signifies any daytime show such as Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, Montel Williams, Barney & Friends. See also: MHHSMIGTCIO--my head hurts so much I'm going to chop it off. Signifies the Rosie O'Donnell Show...
...Kidnappers in Italy chop off the right ear of E. Paul Getty Jr., grandson of the world's richest man, when their ransom demands are not met in a timely...
...injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop square." --Mark Coatney
...would be carried out as part of a "holy war" against the federal government and therefore could not be considered as murder. The FBI documents also state that a militiaman associated with the West Virginia group suggested that members target the Rockefeller and Greenspan families as well. "You must chop off their heads," Larry Matz, an Ohio resident not charged in the bombing plot, allegedly said. Throughout his 31-year political career in West Virginia, Rockefeller, a descendant of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, has labored against an image as an Eastern establishment, big-money insider ? a perception that...