Search Details

Word: bowness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...whom they both had sworn undying devotion. Even after a restorative drug has returned them to orderly pairings, all four eye one another uneasily: they have lost the sweet certainty of first love. At the curtain call, the pairs come out again mismatched. Only as they start to bow do they exchange partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Moonbeams and Menaces | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...later cleared the way for Deng's return to power the next year. Once again he was required to sign a letter of contrition, which he did largely for expediency. Says Parris Chang, professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University: "Deng is a man who knows when to bow and bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deng Xiaoping: The Comeback Comrade | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Great Fire of 1871, when the area, four miles south of the Loop, was still a prairie. The main street, then called Grand Boulevard, became a popular carriage route. It is still lined with great stone houses--most now disused or broken up into grimy cubicles--characterized by bow fronts, Greek columns, turreted towers, bay windows with pilasters, and beveled-glass fanlights. "The potential is so wonderful," a social worker remarks, driving down the boulevard, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. She is talking about the architecture. The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Victims of Grand Boulevard | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Even in the era of the perpetual presidential campaign, 34 months before election is too early for a formal announcement of candidacy. But it is not too soon to bow out of an intervening race that would at best be a distraction and at worst a danger. So Gary Hart, 49, widely regarded as the early front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination--at least since the withdrawal last month of Ted Kennedy--took that inevitable first step. On Saturday he announced that he will not run to retain his U.S. Senate seat from Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Front, but for How Long? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing strobe lights with an American consular official dressed in Bermuda shorts. Then Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family and friends as Bong-bong, steps up to a mike, sporting makeup and a flashing electronic bow tie, and joins in on a raucous rendition of We Are the World, the song recorded to raise money for the starving in Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | Next