Word: hangers
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...Since this has happened, there are still doors propped open,” she said. “Yesterday, I found a door propped open with a hanger. I knocked, I rang the bell, but no one responded. So I took the hangar out and closed the door...
...Hanger-on-dom, that more attainable yet rarely celebrated dream, is the subject of HBO's summer sitcom Entourage (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.). Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier) is a hot young actor who has just opened a blockbuster thriller. But the title refers to the homeboys from Queens--including his unofficial manager Eric (Kevin Connolly) and chucklehead pal Turtle (Jerry Ferrara)--who live in his L.A. house, ride in his Rolls, smoke his pot and score his surplus women. ("Come on, make out with me," Turtle cajoles one. "I'll show you where Vince eats breakfast.") In return, they make...
...slower speed to conserve fuel and reduce wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation construction outfit asked for $20 million to build a hanger at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes asked the small contractor who built his home to do it instead for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind-set of staff so they eat, sleep and breathe costs...
...other parts of the world aren't even coy about their work. Says a Philippine government interrogator: "Just the very act of stretching your arms will send shivers among suspected terrorists. Then you can also ask [them], 'Which do you prefer that I use--this wooden stick or this hanger?'" If that doesn't work, wires carrying low-voltage surges of electricity can be attached to the genitals, he says...
Streaking behind the Brown defense, Cavanagh shook his own defender leaving him 2-1 with Pettit and his hanger-on. But rather than take his own open shot, the Crimson playmaker beamed a pass through the narrowest of seams, between Danis and his lone defender. And onto Pettit’s tape. 3-1 Harvard...