Word: roping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...major stories Thursday profiling the desperate state of affairs in Hollywood. Movie moguls, their fourth homes mortgaged to the hilt, are panicking: Why, they cry, why aren't people going to the movies?! Fox head honcho Rupert Murdoch has apparently reached the end of his admittedly very short rope, firing the top guy at Fox studios (which you may remember as the home of a little film called "Titanic...
...would be the governor of Texas. That's counterintuitive: Bush is short on facts and figures, and Gore is a buffed-up schoolmarm with murder in his eye. But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!" (It occurred...
...What's that?" I asked, pointing to a coil of black, braided rope with a harness that was hanging from a big brass hook near the bedroom window...
Outside the room, McCain's team of aides wondered what was going on. They had placed bets on how long the meeting would last, with the low bidder guessing McCain would be out of the room in 20 minutes. When he emerged after an hour and a half without rope burns, they joked that he hadn't spent that long alone in a room with another man since he was interrogated at the Hanoi Hilton. Even McCain was surprised. "He has a lot of charm," says McCain...
...that is exactly what this meeting means for McCain. It provides conclusive proof that he is nothing more than another politician with a King Kong-sized ego and not Tarzan riding in on a rope swing to save the nation from special interests and corruption...