Word: parr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple appeared calm and sat quietly as the charges were read into the court record, and Assistant District Attorney Audrey Parr graphically described the accusations...
...Parr said the couple should pay a sizeable bail because of the seriousness of the charges...
...ensemble" piece, ensemble being used here to signify several uninteresting storylines which are connected with no common theme and only the most superficial circumstance. A more ludicrous feature is the fact that the makers of this turkey used a wretched single by a heretofore unknown potbelly (John Parr) as the title theme, when a great song of the appropriate title by Brian Eno was available. The most ludicrous feature, however, is that a nauseating effort like St. Elmo's Fire (both movie and song...
...goes "poor Holloway," a somewhat seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just as the juvenile parr of the salmon tribe dart in among their unaware elders to fertilize the females' eggs, so does "poor Holloway" put horns on his betters...
Ronald Reagan, during a farewell visit with retiring Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr, 54, who pushed him into his limousine during the Hinckley assassination attempt: "You want to just stand here, or you want to throw me over the couch...