Word: hooted
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...festivity that resulted eventually had a Winter Carnival Queen. The title and the role went out of style in the early '70s. Now the queen is celebrated only in a wonderfully awful 1939 Ann Sheridan movie that plays to packed houses at carnival time so liberated students can hoot at chaste girls "just dying to get pinned...
...comedian makes a film, audiences come to the theater planning to laugh their heads off. Such expectations are best set aside by moviegoers who venture to see Real Life. Comic Albert Brooks' first feature is not as dark as Interiors, but neither is it designed as a hoot. What Brooks has wrought is a scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time...
...Children read books, not reviews. They do not give a hoot about the critics...
Cavileer recalls, "Galston couldn't draw worth a hoot but he knew I had taken engineering and could draw a bit. He said to me: 'I want to stay involved in football and if you work with me I can do it.'" Cavileer adds, "We got a couple of complimentary tickets and I think he was interested in that...
...most big cities, small consumers complaining to service stations and businesses about slipshod auto repairs or faulty appliances as often as not might as well hoot at the moon. Many do not know about consumer complaint agencies or how to bring a small claims suit. The idea of hiring a lawyer is intimidating, and the legal fees involved in pressing a claim often turn out to be larger than the possible rewards. But in San Francisco, gypped citizens can bring their consumer gripes to a baby-blue 1953 van operated by the city-getting advice, and often redress, for absolutely...