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...World Trade Center. Instead of the 5,000 people expected, nearly four times that number showed up to see Kong bleed Karo syrup and breathe his last. ("A mob of paid extras is one thing," said a nervous production chief, "but this is a mob of New Yorkers!") Though souvenir hunters managed to remove a few feet of Kong's $85,000 horsehair coat during the two nights of filming, order ultimately prevailed, and Actress Jessica Lange was able to bid a moving farewell to her hairy hero...
...original reason for Cook's voyage is less grandiose. It derives from his last trip (1772-75), when one of his officers insisted on bringing a native Tahitian back to England as a souvenir (and promised that he would eventually be returned home). The Tahitian, a youth named Omai, soon became the pet of London Society. Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons." Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of him in a turban. He was even introduced to King George...
...foreigners charging across the U.S. (in exchange for some 23 million Americans who are going abroad). There is also not enough fender room left on the highways. In any case, the remaining 98 million of the nation's population have to stay behind to serve the tourists at motels, souvenir shops, trailer camps and gasoline pumps, not to mention the necessity of maintaining a standing U.S. Army and more than 3,800 way stations of the McDonald hamburger chain...
Gian-Carlo Menotti's latest opera, The Hero, opens in a modern bedroom that has been decorated as a tourist attraction. To the right sits a fourposter. It is roped off and its curtains are drawn. In the rear is a stand displaying souvenir dishes and postcards. Also on sale are toy replicas of a man in bed. Two tourists, a husband and wife, enter the room. The proprietress announces that the admission is $2 each. Replies the man: "Two dollars! Shit!" Leave it to the man who brought opera to both Broadway (The Consul) and film (The Medium...
...candidate contends that he understands the needs of the people, perhaps even some that they do not yet recognize. Fully a year ago, he visited the mayor of Plains to discuss the need for a new zoning ordinance in town. Carter feared that once he became President, tacky souvenir shops and motels would spring up all over the place. To the lovers and the haters alike, Carter simply reiterates: "Trust me." Whether or not enough will do so will be seen only after many more contests, but the determined, supremely confident believer from Georgia certainly has shaken up the race...