Word: crookedness
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The same cannot be said of the caterpillars. New Hampshire has been eaten by caterpillars, most of them the larval form of the gypsy moth. Properly, these caterpillars, bristly brown and yellow chaps with red and blue spots, belong down south in Massachusetts, where for some years they have chewed...
It was George Orwell who wrote: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." Orwell was dead at 46; but Eastwood, who turned 50 on May 31, keeps trucking man fully through middle age with the face his movies deserve- sun-burnished, granite-hard, seamed and serene like an outdoor...
Let the record show that the book does not provide the neatest of plots. But its tangled cast is instantly credible and permanently delightful. From the opening wisecrack, Kennedy and his world seem so real that when, at novel's end, the lawyer finally relaxes on the "Irish Riviera...
It's not that Londoners don't want a half-ton, half-heroic bronze of British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square. After all, Will Shakespeare already stands there, although the Bard's appearance and dignity have been besmirched by pigeons, air pollution and porno spreading...
In some cases, roulette wheels were rigged to improve the odds for gamblers working with crooked croupiers. A favorite method involved padding the canoes, the individual pockets into which the spinning ball falls. Rubber pads were fitted under five or six of the felt-lined pockets. The added height caused...