Word: hulked
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SOMEWHERE in the second act, when Peer Gynt is stranded in the desert and offers half his kingdom for a horse, the stagehands accommodate him with a painted wooden creature that might have had trouble fitting through the gates of Troy. As its hulk lumbers forward, all eyes turn to the horse, Peer pauses, afraid that the thing might suddenly topple over, and you begin to wonder who's in control--the props or the actors...
Leaving the parking lot, the bus passes old Sullivan Square station. Large abandoned hulk in its final humiliation it might at least ever kept its dignity intact informality it powerless no digits to start with, Bus passes under the ancient, rusted treacle of the old Orange Line. Maybe the new Orange Line's a good idea after...
...film, after the last flame has been doused, Paul Newman surveys the ruined hulk of his skyscraper. He suggests allowing it to stand as "a monument to all the bullshit" of our age. Probably The Towering Inferno should be placed on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian for the same reason...
...Tell me again about the rabbits, George." The plea is from John Steinbeck's naturalistic opus Of Mice and Men. The pleader is Lennie, a ruined hulk who grasps ideas with his hands instead of his brain. Looming about the California farm land, Lennie is barely held in tow by his keeper George. Together, the two migratory workers enjoy a classic symbiosis, the blending of brute strength and animal cunning...
...Willard more recently fell on hard times and was an empty hulk last week when a court ruled that the structure could be converted into an office building. The decision roused the Willard's persistent advocates to try once again to find a way to save the landmark, of which Poet Carl Sandburg observed that in the 1860s "Willard's Hotel could more justly be called the center of Washington and the nation than either the Capitol or the White House, or the State Department...