Word: hydrant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are not many people in the world of politics who want to get between the dog and the fire hydrant," she said. "There's a voice within you, a power, an ability and, I hope, the desire to be part of more `beautiful world...
...home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here. The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites to hot-wire the dead-again pooch. It's a prize oddity from a child prodigy...
Grimm, the rather deranged Old Yeller (I'm referring to the pre-rabies Yeller of course) has done one too many "fire hydrant" jokes for my tastes, but he's weird enough to like. The strip alternates between one shot gags and storylines, the one shot gags often being funnier. A recent "Soup of the Day joke" involving some confusion between they day (Wednesday) and the soup, was stupid, but funny, which is perhaps a good way to summarize the strip...
Harvard Square is not landlocked. Subversives may favor cracking open a fire hydrant, but there are plenty of other ways to get wet this summer. The fountain in front of the Science Center is a prime place to cool off. Beaches are within an easy ride by public transportation. And the Charles River, while hazardous to swim in, is perfect for rowing, canoeing or sailing...
...difficult to defend Buchanan after his comments about Treblinka and the alleged dual loyalties of Jews during the gulf war. Michael Kinsley, Buchanan's Crossfire co-host for two years, points out that it is a pundit's business to spew out provocative opinions like an open fire hydrant. But he insists, as do most of Buchanan's colleagues, that the candidate is not anti- Semitic: "I never heard him make a disparaging remark about Jews, never noticed any difference in the way he treats Jews...