Word: blasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have told them they can watch successively the minute they turn 13. The order changes from time to time - last week Pirates of the Caribbean was at the top of the list, this week Independence Day. We have found lots of other PG movies which have been a blast to watch - Chariots of Fire, Apollo 13 - and websites like Screenit can provide interested parents with plenty of information before they go to the cineplex. It seems odd that parents who caution their children to avoid sex, drugs and violence don' t mind exposing them to these themes...
...hatched the stainless-steel-cool, THX138 -a project received by its sponsors at Warner Bros. with so much bafflement and meddling that it stirred in Lucas a resolve to be a truly independent filmmaker. In 1973 he moved to the middle with American Graffiti, a feel-good blast of instant-nostalgia (it re-imagined a California car culture only a decade in the past). The two works were, respectively, boldly European-ish and familiarly humanist. They hardly hinted at the Empire Lucas would create on film, or the empire he would build in Marin County...
...what might have been.“I don’t miss the practices,” Weitzen says. “I don’t miss everything that’s involved with kicking. But would it be cool to step out onto a field and blast a field goal through the uprights? Absolutely.”Nevertheless, volleyball remains a priority in all three players’ careers. After graduation, McCrone hopes to play professional volleyball in Europe before heading to medical school. And Weitzen and Crooks still have another two-and-a-half seasons remaining...
...government. But Kurdish, Sunni and secular parties have in recent days mounted a strong challenge, demanding that Jaafari's nomination be withdrawn. They blame Jaafari for the interim government's many failings, including its failure to act quickly and decisively to prevent the sectarian conflagration that followed the Samarra blast...
...speaks from experience. Mohammed's family fled its home in Baladiat, in northeastern Baghdad, in the aftermath of the Samarra blast. Once a mainly Sunni enclave adjoining the Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Baladiat gradually turned into a mixed neighborhood after the fall of Saddam Hussein. "We made lots of friends among the Shi'ites," Mohammed says. "On their festivals, we would invite them to feasts at our home." The day after the shrine bombing, he was at work when his uncle called. "He said, 'Come home at once.' He sounded frightened." But Mohammed was on duty and could...