Word: browser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voice is full-bodied and rich, the diction faultless, the rhythm and phrasing reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald. To a casual record store browser it might signify the most exciting new popular singing talent to come along in years. But the voice is not new. It belongs to a great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
There is a feudal clank to the title of Cameron Hawley's latest novel, and for a moment the startled bookshop browser may wonder whether this chronicler of corporate Lancelots has abandoned the executive suite for the ducal fortress. He has done no such thing, of course. The Lords are not border chiefs but a matrimonial amalgam-Lincoln and Maggie Lord, that is. Lincoln is an organization mandible-a tanned, nobly hewn jaw suspended six feet from the floor and usually worth $50,000 a year because it inspires respect and belief when it flaps, strikes fear when...
Bird baths & Bikes. On dusty tables and counters in the dark little shops lie Baccarat crystal, Sevres china, slightly used false teeth, kitchen gadgets, books, paintings, precious stones, carpets, birdbaths, old bicycle tires, bottles. A browser once found, between a bust and a bidet, Fragonard's painting, La Chemise Enlevée, and bought it for 20 francs; it is now worth millions of francs. Other lucky buyers uncovered original works sold in their impoverished days by Vlaminck, Cézanne, Utrillo, Modigliani...
Hillman stopped talking for a moment and glanced around his shop, his gaze resting for a moment on a browser. "I sell a lot of books to people who come in not wanting anything in particular. One thing that always hurts, though, is to see someone come across a book he obviously wants and just as obviously can't afford. I remember all too well the times at Cornell when I went hungry to buy books...
...Searching Mind. In Indianapolis, an eight-year-old browser asked Librarian Louise Hodapp for a special book on hypnotism, "one that will tell me how to hypnotize my brother into washing dishes every night...