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...Trojan Horses. A battle was developing in Mississippi, where signs of a backlash surfaced over the attempt to promote a Ford takeover-and at week's end a narrow majority seemed to be leaning to Reagan. "The Ford folks tried some overkill, and I think it's backfired on them," observed State Republican Chairman Clarke Reed. He accused Ford's local delegate hunters of "high-pressure tactics and lies." He said that one of them called another delegate and said, "If you don't sign on by 9 a.m., you won't be a federal...
...Atlantic Alliance blocked Moscow's attempts to suborn democracy in France, Italy and Germany. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger broods about this new Red menace in background talks with newsmen and in conferences with aides and U.S. ambassadors, at which he has called the Communists the Trojan horses of totalitarianism and NATO officials meet secretly to discuss the Communist threat. The focus of the debate: How dangerous would it be if the Communists came to power and what should and could be done to prevent...
...flow of time. The sound of a cuckoo clock, which Stoppard treats as the Swiss national anthem, periodically suspends the action, and the same opening lines of dialogue lead into an entirely different episode. One scene has Joyce arguing that no one would have been remotely aware of the Trojan War had it not been for Homer, a dozen other artists, and his own upcoming Ulysses. Scarcely a word is uttered without a play on it. A few of the puns are punishing, but most of the word play is daffily delicious, as for instance, "My art belongs to Dada...
...improbably but effectively charged with defending a cave where a vital clue to the grail's whereabouts is located. Bunnies indeed are much on the Python group's mind. One of the stratagems that the heroes devise to gain access to the French castle is a Trojan rabbit. It does not work out, but then not much else does either...
...funny reversals of cliches about medieval movies, but these fall into two categories: the "it must have looked funny on the drawing board because it sure doesn't look funny on the screen"; and the simply stupid. In the latter category, the knights build a sort of Trojan Horse to enter a castle and then forget to hide themselves within it. In the former, the defenders of a castle attack the approaching army not with boiling oil or arrows, but with large, living animals like sheep and cows. Even the jokes that are somewhat amusing at first--King Arthur...