Word: hilt
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...featured in the 1964 movie Topkapi. Created in the 1740s as a gift for the Shah of Persia, who was assassinated before he could take possession, it is a sword-length blade that is more a showpiece than a weapon. Who would want to bloody a knife with a hilt containing three walnut-size emeralds and a diamond-covered sheath...
...Faith No More's targets are the rich and powerful. In the darkly humorous RV, Patton plays to the hilt a fortysomething couch potato who has made a career of failure. He narrates the sorry soliloquy in a gravelly, hangover-from-hell drone to a bluesy piano and guitar accompaniment. "Besides listening to my belly gurgle/ Ain't much else to do," he groans, then concludes by mumbling, "I think it's time I had a talk with my kids/ I'll just tell 'em what my daddy told me/ You ain't ever gonna amount to nothin...
...quite a while. All the articles included in their brochure warned that a GWAR show would turn my stomach. Mainstream Rolling stone ignored them, while the more clued in Spin thought they were hilarious, pushing mass culture's rampant images of sex and violence to an absolutely nauseating hilt. Their album was called America Must Be Destroyed, their forthcoming video Phallus in wonderland...
...fact, Bok says, between the usual spring-time load of meetings to attend and faculty positions to fill, not to mention the host of dinners and receptions being held in his honor, he is "booked to the hilt through graduation...
...companies have other ways to restructure their debt, notably by using corporate stock. Firms in relatively good financial health can raise money by offering new shares on the market. Mr. Coffee, which was leveraged to the hilt as the result of a 1987 buyout, was able to wipe out almost half its LBO debt through a new issue last May. Another technique is the debt-for-equity swap, in which corporations retire their bonds by giving lenders corporate stock. That strategy was employed by furniture maker Interco, which last week announced that it will swap 95% of the stock...