Word: clucks
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...wincing when she heard her husband equate mission success with personal survival. Vasily had made it sound as if he had gone up to Mir on a dare, like riding the roof of a prewar elevator. And now the family had been shamed, and the neighbors would snicker and cluck and throw at their windows whatever rotting turnips could be spared in these difficult times...
...Typically the first response is a double take as customers grasp that it's really her -- the notorious Hollywood Madam -- there among the boxer shorts and athletic gear at the Heidi Wear shop in Pasadena, California. The second response is to ask Fleiss to autograph their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week it was her turn to do a double take when a uniformed policewoman entered the shop...
Their new "squeezes" don't argue about sexism and exploitation. They don't criticize the clubs for being bastions of elitism. In fact, they don't even really cluck-unless their necks are clutched just a little too tightly...
About ten minutes later, a second chicken began to cluck and Dominguez asked its host to leave, Rosaldo said. Then a third started and was also kicked out of lecture...
...Williams pounding the mean streets, digging up leads, performing traditionally reporterly duties. The commercial is, of course, completely staged. Williams rarely leaves the studio (and never without a full entourage of producers, assistants, writers, etc.); his main talent is the ability to read large electronic type fluently and the cluck his tongue, shake his head or giggle at the appropriate times. Williams, like his fellow "news" people, should take a cue from the old Tylenol ad, and open the broadcast with a little bit of truth: "I'm not a reporter, but I play...