Word: ferreted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given here, and we always go for that. DeNiro exhilarates us in Mean Streets because he's his own man even when geing his own man is absolutely self-destructive craziness. He's burning with it. In this subterranean world of dumpsters and neon and bar-darkness, racketeers and ferret-faced, small-time hoods, he dares to be a total jerk. He's the problem child who won't stop playing, hyperactively needling the frayed nerves of the others, and exploding in careless bravura. He is wired. Johnny Boy digs the risk and the rock 'n' roll, so he half...
...tenants, including Kenneth Erickson, who lives at 118 Banks St. (remember that address). Since it was an open meeting there seems no reason to be too upset about Erickson's attendance. Except for this--he had been specifically sent by Harvard's Office of Government and Community Affairs to ferret out information. His report was later discussed at several Harvard meetings; and the idea of sending him had been discussed at enough length (and perhaps with enough consideration of its dubious morality) that Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, had been given the final descision. Go ahead...
They meet as competitors in a provincial track meet. They start to become friends when Archy, the country mouse (Mark Lee), shares his breakfast with Frank, the city ferret (Mel Gibson), who has gone broke betting on himself. That friendship deepens as they trek through the Australian outback to Perth, where the idealistic but underage Archy hopes to find a recruiter who will permit him to fight for someone else's King and country in the Great...
...have over the strong and dull. Many of his best stories, The Penance, for instance, and The Lumber-Room, turn on the triumph of children over adults. In Sredni Vashtar, the most notably bloodthirsty, a surrogate aunt is actually done in by a persecuted small boy's pet ferret...
...Nixon had used it to harass his political enemies. The Reagan Administration is now trying to loosen the Taxpayer Privacy Act, which some officials bitterly call "the Organized Crime Relief Act," to give law enforcement agents greater access to taxpayer records. The IRS is also assigning more investigators to ferret out tax evasion among major drug traffickers...