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MARION: Memorably embodied by Karen Allen, Marion (Raiders of the Lost Ark) was a two-fisted drinker, a bare-knuckle fighter (unless confined to a wicker basket) and a perfect romantic foil for the rakish Dr. Jones. She was Rosalind Russell to his Cary Grant, Bette Davis to his Errol Flynn--in short, a helluva dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 2007 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Wolfe--in the way Buckley spins his wonky premise into a story about how the absurdities of Washington demand even greater absurdities in response. And Buckley (who, for the record, is 54) has an endless facility for mimicking the glossy rhetoric of political spin in a way that lays bare its atrocious underlying hypocrisies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheat Sheet | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...mercenary who'd staged a coup in 2003 and held power for a week before, you know, realizing he really couldn't be bothered to exercise it, and giving it back. I roused the head of the National Petroleum Agency from his siesta and interviewed him as he sat bare-chested on his verandah with his unfastened belt hanging between his legs. I drank excellent coffee, ate some great dark, heavy chocolate, and when I ran out of people to meet, Danielo took me to see the Boca del Inferno (Mouth of Hell), which turned out to be a rocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepwalking in Sao Tome | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...near Christian act of self-sacrifice. "I don't think anybody believes me, but I try not to be gratuitous about it," says Ferrell, who streaked in Old School, ran around a speedway in his underwear in Talladega, was a shirtless Bible salesman on SNL, worked out bare chested in his office in Anchorman and ... you get the point. "In Blades we do a thing where I tell the story of my life"--wearing only a towel--"with my tattoos, but that's for story purposes." He's laughing now. "I'm trying to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell: Brilliant Idiot | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Nipples are so three years ago. Janet Jackson's 2004 flash at the Super Bowl reawoke the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to decency issues and left producers scouring TV footage for too droopy bathing suits. A few fines and a lot of blurred-out prime-time flesh later, the bare-breast buzz has faded from the headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Coming Fight Over TV Gore | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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