Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good measure, Jones has also tried to rope in some right-wing Britons. He has asked the court to allow him to talk to Kenneth Tyndall and Charles Sergeant, both of whom are active in ultra-right politics in England, and to David Irving, the British historian connected to circles of Holocaust deniers, whose new biography of Goebbels was canceled last week by a mainstream publisher (see page...
...Steel Hour. The deal originally struck between ABC and Pepsico, Taco Bell's parent company, was that each week a different member of the Pepsi family would serve as "both title and target" for Carvey's wry satire, positioning the sponsor as quite the cool dude for rope-a-doping a few edgy punches...
...movie, the ways in which even the subtlest contributions of directors, writers and actors shape the final product. The directors, writers and actors who speak here feel responsible in varying degrees for the implications of their films. Farley Granger describes the actors' awareness of the homosexual themes in "Rope," while Shirley Maclaine wonders at the production of "The Children's Hour," a film wholly concerned with lesbianism, during which the words and ideas of homosexuality were never even mentioned...
...Boeing 727 had fallen open about two feet. (The 70 or so passengers would have noticed even faster but for a bulkhead between the gaping hole and their compartment.) Incredibly, the crew wasted no time in selecting one of its number to fix the problem. "They did use a rope and tied it around this individual," said airport spokeswoman Linda Wasserman. "Just for safety, they kept a hold of him by this rope and he did reach out and pull this door closed." A few passengers later revealed that seat belts were used to tie the door shut...
...Perishing Rifles, Pratt's elite military organization, the description of whose hazing practices brings to mind nothing so much as the gay sadomasochistic rituals that came to fascinate the artist later in life. "In this case the "masters"...bound the pledges penises with one end of a rope, then attached bricks to the other end and ordered them to hurl the brick across the room...