Word: squealing
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Doesn't anybody have any loyalty anymore? Not only did those IRS agents squeal on their bosses, they couldn't even do it without gray screens and frosted-flake voices. And while the G-men were singing like canaries, the senators were having a, er, whale of a time overturning some other sacred cows, like the FDA and the McCain-Feingold bill. The House had some trouble keeping NASA in check ? David Wolf, that dirty rat that actually wanted to go to the Mir, slipped through Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner's fingers like a stratospheric salmon...
...Hollywood hardly knows what to do with its human stars. Sandra Bullock became one as the resourceful bus driver of Speed, yet in the sequel she can only squeal, hide and get kidnapped, while no-voltage Jason Patric attends to all the heavy heroics. In Batman & Robin the guest villains are Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Thurman has sexy fun with her villainous eco-freak, but Arnold is encased in an icy truss of a costume that obscures his rippling charisma. Memo to the Batman team: next time you pay a star $25 million...
...consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
...example, when criticizing his opponents' budget proposals, the folksy Texan, astride the stepladder conveniently located behind his lectern, might squeal witty down-home aphorisms such as: "Now, you wouldn't build an outhouse like that, would you?" or "Everybody knows why a hound dog's afraid of fire ants...
...rewarding. It is understandable that people might want to leave this winter scene to spend the weekend where the grass is visible and the dogs are not so empowered. But the bobcats are worth watching, their halogens shooting into the attacking snow as their engines stutter and their wheels squeal in the effort to shovel the snow from street to curb. The dogs won't run on clean streets. The cars will, though. The bikes might still encounter some icy trouble...