Word: rottener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oliver North was set to appear in a Halloween parade with some local police in Vienna, Virginia, last week when he got word that followers of Lyndon LaRouche, dean of the American political fringe and Virginia resident, might ambush him along the way with a salvo of rotten fruit. "What do we do?" North asked an adviser, Mark Goodin. "Be sure and duck," Goodin replied...
...preserving the small banana farm, which is the sole source of support for many laid-back islanders. Normally well-behaved people on both sides of the issue have been insulting each other's bananas through at least two different rounds of GATT talks, calling the rival bananas "skinny," "tasteless," "rotten" and "easily bruised." Both GATT panels have ruled that the banana quota system is a restraint of trade, but that hasn't stopped the friends of the quotas. They have been working frantically behind the scenes, offering South American countries various financial inducements to get them to switch positions. Meanwhile...
...made promises to clean up the U.S. poultry business quit abruptly last week. The rotten system he leaves behind will be much more tenacious. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy will leave office at the end of the year because he accepted too many goodies from the industry that he was supposed to be regulating. Among the items were $1,300 worth of pro-football tickets, plane rides and lodging. Espy had reimbursed his benefactors, but recently another gift surfaced -- a $1,200 scholarship Espy's girlfriend had accepted from a foundation controlled by Tyson Foods, the world's largest chicken processor...
...flashy tribute to those movies and mores, Showtime is rolling out 10 teen features set in the '50s but with '90s attitude splattered all over, like the rotten eggs that used to decorate Dad's DeSoto on mischief night. The series, called Rebel Highway, is premiering a movie a week each Friday through Sept. 16. Taken together, this seamy decalogue shows the '50s as a neat place to visit -- a lovers' lane accessible from a killer drag strip -- but hell to live through. Each movie revives the battles between tough guys and sweet chicks; each recalls hot sex before...
...While the theater was not exactly inundated with people and the plot of the movie stank like rotten eggs, I was pleased with the performances of Chris Farley and Adam Sandler. Both Saturday Night Live regulars made the movie bearable and actually pretty funny at times. In one scene Farley rips an earring off a rebel rocker and, well, let's just say the earring was not attached to the metalhead's ear. Sandler was charming with his portrayal of a stupid drummer for the Lone Rangers band. Much unlike Sandler, Brendan Fraser ("School Ties" and "With Honors") is pathetic...