Word: crocked
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...several fellow committee members is that the internship program would divert funds from more worthy projects such as expanding the fellowship program. But Heimert, who currently is in South Africa on fellowship business, says anybody who argues that the fellowship program will loose funds "doesn't know a crock of shit...
Police sources distinguish between these problems and the reality of a hard working. well run police force "[Accusations of incompetence] are a crock of garbage. Paul did the best possible job he could. He never dodged tough situations. I don't think he had any greater problems than anybody else. just more pressures." Thomas says...
...abusing his guests; they become victims, not visitors. To one, he says, "I don't care what the jury said, you look like a rapist to me." He calls a minister a "scuzzbag," a Congressman "a pimp in a business suit," an Italian chef "an immigrant with a Crock Pot." "Me," "my" and "I" are his favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible cohost, he appeals...
...play derives from the act of a boy named John Taplow (Bruce Wall). The one pupil who fears Crocker-Harris but does not hate him, Taplow brings the teacher a going-away present, a secondhand copy of Robert Browning's translation of Agamemnon. The seemingly granitic "Crock" is riven by tears. The reliably bitchy Millie quickly dries his eyes by suggesting that the boy is simply buttering him up to get a passing grade...
...fussy old sorcerer, frail but doughty, and a trifle wistful because he never mastered the trick of turning lead into gold, which would have provided him with a more comfortable castle for his sunset years. He has a certain fellow feeling for the ogre, who is also an old crock who has outlived his time. Richardson's best speech is an evocation of the days when the skies were aflap with dragons and all the earth seemed touched by magic...