Within a few weeks Bonnie and Clyde were dead, their purloined Ford riddled with over 150 rounds of ammunition, a circumstance that only increased their desperado mystique.
If acceptable to the listeners, the story or song or proverb or riddle will be repeated over and over again as long as it appeals to men and women, even through the ages and over long geographic distances.
But in truth, it is riddled with wild over-statement and false play-offs.
SHOUTS & MURMURS riddle for the over-fifty set: 1. Place your car keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call a friend and confirm a lunch or dinner date.
By Steve Martin The New Yorker, January 19 , 1998P. 88 SHOUTS & MURMURS riddle for the over-fifty set: 1. Place your car keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call a friend and confirm a lunch or dinner date.
The public school system, riddled with failure, was taken over by the state.
It was riddled by corruption and ruled over by a sinister mukhabarat the secret-police network that spies on and bullies the citizenry in most Arab states.
As "American Idol" played on the television overhead, Dr. Leibowitz repeated her introductory riddle — "What brings you here?" — over and over again.
Gregg Turkington, who performs under the name Neil Hamburger, plays a comedian who himself adopts the persona of an awkward, hangdog standup artist, with an intentionally repellent greasy comb-over, whose wheezy riddles are embarrassing and offensive.
In Brooklyn's 75th Precinct, where she died, so many people were being killed or shot that detective work was rushed and riddled with holes, frequently patched over with testimony from informers.
