The movies made at the Factory erased the distinction between artist and voyeur, creator and hanger-on.

NEWYORKER: Double Lives

The hanger-on who waits until the gallery opening is finishing to overhear where the free dinner with be.

WSJ: Book Review: The Value of Art

But, in truth, she was just a hanger-on of the black literary crowd.

ECONOMIST: Dorothy West

Rigoletto, the Duke's court jester in Piave's libretto, is transformed by Mayer into a hanger-on and comic along the lines of Don Rickles and Joey Bishop.

WSJ: Mayer's 'Rigoletto,' set in Vegas, opens at Met

As for Mr Edwards, his brazen infidelity with a political hanger-on and videographer, who rambled on about reincarnation and who introduced herself as a witch, only serves to demonstrate that America dodged a bullet in 2004 when Mr Edwards was the vice-presidential nominee.

ECONOMIST: How Barack Obama beat the Clintons and won the White House

It washed right through the hanger that I was working in and continued on over the runway, it was about 4 to 5 ft of water.

CNN: Tsunami tragedy: Your e-mails

Also steeped in American pride, Hanger, Inc. (No. 5 on our best small companies list), a prosthetics and orthopedics provider, is growing here for different reasons.

FORBES: True Religion Leads The 10 Hot Companies Hiring Like Crazy

Frank was the only one of our group to have taken a hog that evening, and so it was his boar that was winched up on the gambrels (imagine a heavy steel coat hanger with hooked ends, suspended from an iron frame by steel cable), the animal's hind legs at eye level.

WSJ: Going the Whole Hog at a Hunting School