Word: awarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this Daddy who's a boxer. He loses his job during Christmas and he spends his time trying to get six jobs and he fails at all of them. [Writer/director Salvatore Stabile] raised a million dollars for the homeless with the movie. It won the Humanitas [Sundance Film Category] Award for writing. I read it and it just broke me down. I guess being a man you have this fantasy that you have to succeed, and you're the provider and the glue to the family and all that responsibility. What happens when you fail at that...
...Berkeley, Chetty focused his research on the design of tax and social insurance programs. Earlier this year, he was awarded the American Young Economist Award, which included a $100,000 research grant, by The American magazine...
...Groucho--in a play off of Brecher's uncredited role as script editor on The Wizard of Oz--also bestowed on Brecher the nickname "The Wicked Wit of the West." Brecher used that wit to create the long-running radio series The Life of Riley and pen the Academy Award--nominated screenplay for Meet Me in St. Louis...
...College Dropout.” But he’s still emotionally opaque—animatronic, even—and it’s worth remembering that while he could see out of the famous venetian-blind sunglasses, we couldn’t see in. The award-show tantrums, the paparazzi skirmishes: they suggested a Kanye incapable of mature self-expression, an impression “808s” confirms. Sure, he’s hurt, but the album’s few flashes of actual honesty can only depict the skeletal outlines of a relationship, only make...
...York Times op-ed this weekend, Suketu Mehta, the author of an award-winning chronicle about life in Mumbai, wrote that he was already booking plane flights to his childhood city. He was going to have a drink at Leopold Café, which has reopened for business. It was his way of fighting back...