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Tsongas is well known in the elegant halls of the Russell Senate Office Building for his intellectual snobbery. But he is one of the few senators who greets people in the elevator with a soft, "Hi; how are ya?" He receives visitors personally in his cramped suite on the third floor, and answers questions in an aide's tiny cubicle, while his staff lounges on the floor of his office discussing strategy. "Things are tight, even in our party," he says with a straight face...
...Hi, Mother Superior...
...help wondering, though--as you watch a young man in drag dancing up a storm and then snapping a "Hi, mom," into the audience--how this relic of "gentlemanly" fun has survived, or why. Whatever the topical theme of each show, the jokes always return to that most undergraduate of comical subjects, sex--and the humor is not always only verbal. Would the Pudding audiences find it less funny to see an actress fondle a mop-end than an actor in drag? When the audience guffaws as the kick-line picks up its skirts to reveal red garters and yellow...
...March 10, her despair unbearable, she drove five hours to Tarnower's home, where her only worry was "What if Hi says something that spoils my resolve to die?" She went in through the garage and up to the bedroom where he was sleeping. Let's talk, said she. Not now, said he. Then she went into the bathroom, where she found a nightgown and a set of curlers, neither of them hers. "The script was not working as I had intended," she testified. Harris threw them into the bedroom. Suddenly, she said, Tarnower struck...
...favorite pasttime, and where the sun-always shining--seems to reflect off everything, creating a glaring, ultra-gloss sheen on car fenders, carefully-groomed, Brillcreamed coiffures, and the flourescent polyester suits of the cheery citizenry. Here, America's real ordinary people great each other with advertising slogans: "Hi, you should try this new fertilizer on your lawn, it's terrific!" "How are you? Have you ever seen our boat shine like this? It's new Boatsheen!"; "Hey, Pat, how about a delicious weiner...