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Quindlen is at her best writing about the dislocations of growing up, the blows a child does not see coming. Maggie's best friend, Debbie Malone, suddenly takes up with a precocious tramp named Bridget Hearn. "There are things that I'm interested in now that you're not that interested in," announces Debbie. "Maybe we're maturing at different rates." Maggie's pretty cousin Monica, a few years older, "has to marry" that summer and seethes with resentment at Maggie's brains and freedom. "You're worse than everyone else because you pretend to be so good," she explodes...
...that all there is?" singer Peggy Lee crooned in one of her biggest hits. Well, no. A Los Angeles jury last week awarded Lee at least $2.3 million of the profits Walt Disney Co. has racked up on videocassettes of its 1955 classic, Lady and the Tramp. Lee, 70, who sang four parts and co-wrote six songs for the animated film, sought $50 million under a contract that barred Disney from making "transcriptions" of her work without her consent. Lee had received just $3,500 for her contributions to the film...
Steve the Tramp is described as a "reeking piece of filth" and a "public enemy" who will "use and abuse any young helpless prey he comes across." Most amazing of all, Steve the Tramp is also a child's toy. The 5-in. figurine, manufactured by California-based Playmates Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume...
...most intrusive visitors are those who tramp through penguin rookeries and other wildlife habitats. Going anywhere near certain kinds of seabirds can frighten them enough to disrupt feeding patterns and reproductive behavior. Though warned not to litter, some tourists leave behind film wrappers, water bottles and cigarette butts. And, yes, Antarctica has graffiti -- on the rocks of Elephant Island...
Wild walking intoxicates the Toad. But all walking is a matter of style. In finer sensibility, Toad might admit that a tramp through hyena droppings would rank pretty low on the evolutionary scale of walking...