Search Details

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


Usage:

...doctors said the word cut. But Reza, unconcerned, continued to flip the TV channels, even when Dr. Vladimir Golyakhovsky, a hospital fellow, came in with the frame, which looks like a cylindrical birdcage. He explained that the pins forming the bottom, the top and the middle floors of the cage would all go through Reza's shin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: A Boy Towers Tall | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...long Angela has lived in a domestic cage with rococo bars and gilded walls. Her husband Frank "the Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin) boards the morning Long Island commuter train, but he does his work in transit, putting a bullet in the brain of a rival Mafia goon in the seat ahead of him. Angela has a cute son, but the kid runs a three-card monte game in the backyard. Her home must have been decorated by Wheel of Fortune: all the furniture and appliances are studiously ugly, and half of them are still in crates. As she tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mafia Princess, Dream Queen MARRIED TO THE MOB | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...howitzer." Balfour adds, "The White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds' dad, in Jupiter ((Fla.)), gave me a meal." Then there was the time Hogan donned a gorilla costume and checked into an empty cage at the Baltimore Zoo, with the help of authorities. Sufficiently sauced, Hogan nearly suffocated under the suit, but no one would pay attention to him until he hurled bananas at the crowd. Finally, a kid screamed, "Mommy, a blue-eyed gorilla!" and the crowd recognized that it was looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Fans seem to like the friendly ambience of bush-league ball. In many of the cozy parks, which often seat no more than 5,000, customers can sit in the top row of the grandstand and still catch snippets of conversations among ballplayers in the batting cage below. Trotting down to the bullpen wall for an autograph is easy. And to the delight of baseball purists, Astroturf has not made it to many minor-league parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonanza In The Bushes | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...overcome this feeling is Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, which is now being shot with Fierstein re- creating his Broadway role. But Torch Song is about a drag queen and therefore outside the range of ordinary experience, as were the vastly popular movie and musical versions of La Cage aux Folles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Reluctance to Play | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 319 | 320 | 321 | 322 | 323 | 324 | 325 | 326 | 327 | 328 | 329 | 330 | 331 | 332 | 333 | 334 | 335 | 336 | 337 | 338 | 339 | Next