Word: hosing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exactly who she is and what she wants. And she breezes through every scene, tossing out off-the-cuff, sardonic zingers with a grace one doesn't often see in today's movies. Sedgwick is no abrasive Roseanne Barr type--she is utterly feminine in short skirts and sheer hose, even as she knees Quaid in the groin and announces, "Well I feel better...
Brookline Ice and Coal supplies the styrofoam, the hose and the ice. And at minimal cost, they will set up the luge that is placed through the ice blocks, cooling the vodka as it flows...
...I.R.S. is doubling the number of returns it audits, to 2%. Most audits focus on one or two items, and many are conducted by mail. But a record 153,000 will be chosen at random to face the bureaucratic equivalent of a rubber-hose interrogation: a line-by-line, show-us-your-bank-statements gauntlet known as the Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program, which triples in size this year. Even scarier for cheaters -- and more annoying for honest taxpayers-4,500 IRS auditors have undergone 32 hours of training in new "economic reality" techniques for intruding deeply into the life-styles...
...Adams at the ready, when his girlfriend Susan Silverman senses trouble. She speaks: "You're looking all choked up and strange, Slugger." He explains sheepishly that he is reading a detective story. "Yes ... ?" "Well, so there's this wounded guy, and suddenly the detective whips off, um, her panty hose and makes a tourniquet to stop the bleeding." Spenser's consort, the reader supposes, suggests Agatha Christie and counseling...
...grimmest and most convincing is Patricia Cornwell's The Body Farm (Scribners; 387 pages; $23), the fifth adventure of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a gifted forensic pathologist, which means, yes, a performer of autopsies. And a fast hand with panty hose; it's she who tends to the wounded fellow, who as it happens is her married lover...