Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
March 10, 2006:
This vivid but brutal remake of Wes Craven's 1977 cult favorite The Hills Have Eyes made me a little sick with its gore and extreme violence. I can't say the movie isn't effective at what it sets out to do, I just didn't want it done to me.
A phrase coined by environmentalist when they try to persuade children not to dump litter on their hilly nature reserve. Originated from the horror story by Wes Craven called 'The Hills Have Eyes'. Environmentalists use this phrase in reference to the flesh-eating mutants in the book so that the children are too scared to dump litter because they live in fear of the mutants seeing it and going after them to eat them.
Environmentalist: Now, children, don't you go dumping any of your litter in our lovely hills because the hills have eyes - eyes to watch you! Those eyes belong to flesh-eating mutants!
Children: Aaaaah!
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12 lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.