Word: herman
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...since the Flying Fucks trapeze duo in Peter Locke?s very funny 1973 porn film ?It Happened in Hollywood.? Lee is on the receiving end of the most harrowing rape scene in movie history (and, yes, Francophiles, I?m including the one in Gaspar No?s ?Irreversible?). Halfway through Herman Yau?s ?The Untold Story,? Anthony Wong drags her into his shuttered restaurant and ... I?ll just say it?s eye-bulgingly grotty. Sensitive souls will look away when Wong brings out the chopsticks...
According to Herman W. Hill, former president of the University and College Ombuds Association, the position takes on a wide variety of meanings at these schools...
...When the ceremony was over, though, the country reverted to its more recent norms of chaos and calumny. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende informed the Queen that the government he put together 87 days ago had reached a dead end. The reason: a bitter leadership feud between Economics Minister Herman Heinsbroek and Health Minister Eduard Bomhoff, both members of List Pim Fortuyn (LPF). When Balkenende, a Christian Democrat, failed to reconcile them, it was obvious that this cabinet was not going to survive. "The LPF is brilliant at carrying wood to its own funeral pyre," says the hapless Mat Herben...
...Take 15 disgruntled lawyers, scholars and journalists, give them a publishing contract, and stir. The results will look something like "The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right," edited by Herman Schwartz (Hill & Wang; November). Kirkus calls the book a "full-bore, peppery assault on the current Supreme Court...That the court put George W. Bush into the White House is, in these contributors' estimation, but one of its manifold sins, though it's a big one...Contributor address the Court's perceived failings, born of the very judicial activism that so many conservatives denounce...Expect worse, the authors warn...
...Mitchell helps by keeping the chorus kids in check.) And Shaiman's songs (with lyrics co-written by Scott Wittman) are fun, even if they never go much beyond parody. When the numbers aren't imitating the "ooh! ooh! ooh!" squeals of '60s girl songs, they are cloning Jerry Herman show music of the same era, as in a romantic soft-shoe duet, Timeless to Me, between Tracy's parents...