Word: turds
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...year career, Rove, 50, has worked on hundreds of Republican races throughout the country. So when Bush sits down with congressional leaders, he can nod at Rove and say, "You all know the Boy Genius," and they all do. (Bush's other nickname for Rove is less flattering: Turd Blossom.) Like some of his predecessors--Atwater, James Carville--Rove is turning into a Washington celebrity. When he and his wife Darby step out for dinner, maitre d's offer them private dining rooms. Strangers on the street ask for his autograph. Congressmen drop his name and quote things...
...year career, Rove, 50, has worked on hundreds of Republican races throughout the country. So when Bush sits down with congressional leaders, he can nod at Rove and say, "You all know the Boy Genius," and they all do. (Bush's other nickname for Rove is less flattering: Turd Blossom.) Like some of his predecessors - Atwater, James Carville - Rove is turning into a Washington celebrity. When he and his wife, Darby, step out for dinner, maître d's offer them private dining rooms. Strangers on the street ask for his autograph. Congressmen drop his name and quote things...
...Though he has started selling packs of flags (five for $25) so admirers can join his protest, Cho says he'll end his campaign after a year or so. Despite the public service nature of his crusade, the artist is wary of earning a permanent reputation as "the Paris turd guy." "If it instills greater responsibility in dog owners, fantastic," he says. "If any attention it gets helps me find a gallery to show in, all the better. But after a year, that'll be it-on to other things." If at that time life takes inspiration from...
...land of no taste, the man with bad taste is king. John Waters has been lobbing turd grenades at American culture since Pink Flamingos in 1972. These days, with unimaginative grossness prevailing in popular art, Waters seems a throwback, an Edwardian dandy forced to baby-sit the South Park kids. How to offend, he must wonder, without being an old fart...
...Which was more difficult: telling your father your book has a chapter about a giant turd or telling...