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...keeping with romantic-comedy tradition, there is one special widower living in New Ulm. Handsome and hirsute Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is the local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only...
...Today's target demographic was barely sentient when the show was in its mid-'90s prime. The kids want thrills, and I Want to Believe offers some good ones, though of an old-fashioned variety. The chases aren't Batmobile-vs.-Joker-truck, they either involve a snowplow or are on foot. And the shock scenes are closer to the murky threat of Val Lewton's '40s horror movies than to the slice-and-dice explicitness of the Saw and Hostel slasher series. Early on, a young woman takes a dip in a public pool, then gets out. Submerged...
...weather. Unusually heavy snowstorms have been hammering Denver since a Christmas-week monster stranded thousands, jamming many of the city's 14,000 blocks with huge chunks of ice and leaving golden-boy Mayor John Hickenlooper with a mile-high mound of woe. Seems that the city's snowplow corps didn't have enough muscle to handle the Buffalo-level cleanups. The response from ticked-off locals and the city-council president: "Hey, Mayor, wake the *&^%^@# up, will...
...Association predicts that 10 million Chinese could be skiing by then, meaning one out of every seven skiers worldwide could be living in China. "Everyone overseas skis, so why can't we?" asks schoolteacher Hang Mei, whose first-time snowplow is so cautious that she slows to a complete halt on the slope. "China is developing very fast, and there isn't anything...
...Association predicts that 10 million Chinese could be skiing by then, meaning one out of every seven skiers worldwide could be living in China. "Everyone overseas skis, so why can't we?" asks schoolteacher Hang Mei, whose first-time snowplow is so cautious that she slows to a complete halt on the slope. "China is developing very fast, and there isn't anything...