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...strong it feels as if it is trying to "tear its way out of her stomach." Harriet is being beaten from the inside. She takes to running back and forth, trying vainly to escape the battle within her. When the child is born, looking like a "little troll", Harriet is devoid of the nurturing love she lavished on her other children...
...Harriet complains to her doctor, but he refuses to see anything wrong: "He made the usual tests, and said, 'It's large for five months, but not abnormally so.' " After long agony, the child is born. Seeing him for the first time, the mother says, "He's like a troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names him Ben and brings him home to his father and siblings, who learn to shun and fear him. The infant is physically precocious and incredibly strong, and he betrays no trace of human sympathy or fellowship. A dog and a cat about...
Throw Momma From the Train is a funky, silly comedy which shows that Danny DeVito has great promise as a director of comedy. He may look like "a troll that should be hanging from a rear view mirror," but he thinks like a combination of Rod Serling and the Roadrunner...
...strictures forbidding fraternization with foreign nationals, particularly Soviet citizens. For years many on Wall Street have held a cavalier attitude toward insider-trading laws. No one is really hurt by such abuses, they claimed. And besides, they complained, arbitragers, who buy and sell stocks on rumors of takeovers, often troll the gray areas of law. That is why it was perhaps only natural that Boesky's profitable relationship with Martin Siegel, the former co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., began with the sharing of mutually advantageous information. But before federal investigators stepped in, Siegel...
...waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised to purchase...