Word: hock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble of personally hiring Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first public showing of One from the Heart, without informing Paramount, which was supposed to distribute the film? Would Coppola have to hock...
Thus matters stood last week: Coppola hurtling through space with the Zoetrope mortgage in his teeth as 6,000 New Yorkers-1,000 freebies and 5,000 paid-squelched through hock-deep gutter slush into the theater. There was a satisfactory array of the famous on hand, and the famous-for-being-famous, somewhat too swaddled against the cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before...
...which is run by longtime Marcos Pal Rodolfo Cuenca, has borrowed or obtained government loans and guarantees of about $1 billion, a Chrysler-size package put through without any debate or publicity. Cuenca was just a small businessman before Marcos came to power. Several other companies are also in hock to the government for an additional $1.75 billion...
...your life back like some kind of ornamental shrub. I couldn't put the old white horse out to pasture, hock the tin armor, stand the lance in the corner of the barn. For a while, yes. For the healing time...
Sergeant Phil Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) is a ham-hock-faced man in his 50s with a gentle disposition, a teenage girlfriend and an absurdist's command of the bureaucratic vocabulary-"Be reminded: female officers will, according to policy, perform all in-depth searches of female suspects." Howard Hunter (James Sikking) is a SWAT man with a Patton complex; he shoots his way into liquor stores and out of toilet stalls, and warns his boss that "you wouldn't want to be accused of having a bunch of daisies where your cinch belt ought to be." Detective Mick Belker...