Word: hooting
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Socialist victory ends the class struggle and wipes out the old "capitalist" contradiction between beauty and truth. We in 1994 may get a hoot from Ekaterina Zernova's 1937 painting of collective farmers greeting a tank in a country lane with bouquets, or Aleksandr Deineka's solemn image of Lenin (who was childless) on a country spin in an open car with seven children, thus signifying his fatherhood of Russia. Why do we laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality...
There is some truth to that. White House officials hoot at Boren's idea that Clinton convene a bipartisan deficit summit. They believe they will win Boren over, but they don't know exactly how. "He's playing an emotionally needy game," said an official. "He just wants attention...
...Winthrop Drama Society production of Burn This is a great show--and the Winthrop House audience won't let you forget it. No words adequately describe the slapping of thighs and wobbling of bellies resonating through the makeshift theater in the Winthrop JCR. They laugh; they cry; they hoot; they grimace; they guffaw; they constitute a spectacle in themselves...
...home-mortgage deductions on their income taxes and others. Social Security taxes, for example, are counted against spending on pensions and the like; an increase in tax collections reduces net outlays and thus qualifies, to government accountants anyway, as a spending cut. All this will give Republicans reason to hoot again at tax-and-spend Democrats...
Sifting through my box, I got to three of those owl valentines first. You know, the ones that say, "It'd be a HOOT if you'd be my Valentine!" They're the friendship valentines that card companies need to make so that you don't have to worry about people getting the wrong idea. Turtle valentines are pretty good for that, too, as I recall...