Word: featherers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...
...allowed to return to the island whose name they bear. Last week Malta welcomed back its knights, who are members of the Roman Catholic Church's oldest chivalric order. To the crash of a 21-gun salute, a delegation of knights in regal red and black uniforms and feather-plumed helmets, led by Grand Master Fra Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, a Milanese nobleman, landed at the Maltese capital of Valletta -named for the commander who terrified besieging Moslems in 1565 by using the heads of decapitated Moslem prisoners as cannonballs...
China is Near is not about love, but sex; it's not about ideology, but politics. The proletarians making love at the start of the movie on a hard wooden bench are by the end wallowing in feather-beds. Their socialist consciences are not so much destroyed as dissipated by bourgeois morality, or rather immorality...
...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...
...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a comedy of terrors, tickling the funny bone with the feather of the absurd while scratching away at the skin with the razor edge of truth...