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They are oversized, under-shaven and badly mannered. Their outfits and body armor are off-the-rack (of a bad masquerade store). Their solicitations are proffered in barks and grunts. And if you get close enough without paying for the experience they might just bite your head off. For those who have visited the ancient Coliseum in recent years, you have probably run into these would-be modern-day Roman gladiators, or more precisely, they have run into you. Last I checked, they were demanding 20 euros to pose next to them for a photograph outside the Coliseum, holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gladiators Help Sell Rome's Coliseum? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Fashion,” his multiple lines of fitted jackets and elegant collared shirts provide the opportunity to “minimize…risk and preserve…life.” In fact, Caballero, who has come to be known as the “Armani of armor,” routinely demonstrates the life-saving capabilities of his products by allowing potential customers to shoot hired salespeople clothed in the bulletproof apparel...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mexico's Newest Luxury Item | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...They buy IM shirts, give everyone matching Under Armor, black, tight, uniforms to look “badass and intimidating,” even though it just emasculates them all the more...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY WORLD: The Line Must Be Drawn in IM Play | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...Cabinet, Part 2. Los Angeles's LACMA has Hearst the Collector on view. Immortalized in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was said to have provided 25% of the art on the market in the 1920s and '30s. The LACMA collection includes 17th-century armor and tapestries, as well as Hearst's sculpture and paintings. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Teeny, Tiny NYC Hotel Rooms for $99 | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Blue Ribbon, Tecate, Kokanee). Drink it with your scruffy friends. Drink it until you vomit. Rock out while you do so. When you’ve had enough beer, hit the nearest metal shop. Now take all your empty cans and weld them together into weapons and suits of armor. How much cooler is that idea than recycling, or even—dare I say it—commingled recycling? This seems to be the gist of “Prehistoric Dog,” at least until around the mid-way point, when the guys in Red Fang suit...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Red Fang | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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