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...best spoofs of Wagner take on the music and kid it. But composer Scott Warrender settles for standard C. and W. in the first act (Hog-Tie Your Man), while veering to show tunes in the second. The only Wagner to be heard is the bridal march from Lohengrin, which runs through the mismatched double weddin' of Gunther to Brunnhilde and of her drugged true love Siegfried to Gutrune. One way or another, much of the opera plot -- too much -- is noted. As one of the actors says, pointing at the audience, "Their eyes is glazed over! They...
...problem with altruism as the prime mover of foreign policy is that altruism is a sentiment, not a strategy. And to paraphrase Lord Palmerston, America has no permanent sentiments, only permanent interests. The Emir of Kuwait, living high on the hog in Saudi Arabia waiting to be returned to his palace by American troops, was no more worthy or sympathetic a figure than Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But it did not matter much. America had more than altruistic reasons for going into Kuwait. Real, tangible, important things were at stake: oil, nuclear weapons, the future of the Middle East...
...says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...
Guarding the gates to hog heaven is the formidable, if mysterious. Harvard Square Defense Fund. It's mysterious in that it is what one neighborhood business owner has called a "phantom organization." A local land court has ruled that the Defense Fund has no standing on which to file official zoning board appeals...
Standards have changed, and Clinton helped change them. He went whole hog into touchy-feely, talk-show politics, even held a confessional commune with his staff and Cabinet. It was uncomfortably logical then when someone dared to ask what kind of underwear he wore -- and worse to hear his answer...