Word: heigh-ho
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...outside a home wearing earmuffs and ski caps, caroling. Though their goals are to multiply and maraud, the gremlins are distracted by the slightest opportunity to forget it all and have fun, whether that means ransacking a department store or catching a midnight matinee of Snow White and singing "Heigh-ho" along with the Seven Dwarfs. "If they could speak English," notes Spielberg, "they'd probably say, 'Let's party!' It's how they party that can be hazardous to your health...
Good Bye, Old Paint: The named horse of the masked or unmasked man has become an endangered species. No longer does Silver heigh-ho. One consequence of this phenomenon has been the general decline of charisma. The devastating effect has been the same on Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Wayne, and Jack Armstrong, as well as some fall-out on Doc and Reggie...
...like a swagger stick. He discovers his love half knowingly, but with astonishment nonetheless, like a child finding the tooth fairy's silver dollar. Kathleen Widdoes makes Beatrice a proper combination of cold wit and hot blood. When she exclaims, "I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband...
Compared with the heigh-ho, collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...wearing a mask and leaning on a couple of canes. "How do you do?" says Gielgud to her. "How do I do what?" she says. That bit of dialogue was exchanged between Snow White and Grumpy in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna's blue and hold him in the precise attitude of the Pieta as he dies? So he must be Grumpy then, and Grumpy...