Word: catalysts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made him a magnet to younger artists, most of whom worked as illustrators for the Philadelphia press--Sloan, Glackens, Shinn and Luks. They drank together, had long poker sessions, bellowed poetry at one another and argued late into the night. Sloan recalled 50 years later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, the Dadaist Man Ray and, strange...
...helps to explain why such a run-of-the-mill movie as Waiting to Exhale is a box-office hit. For many blacks, especially women, the film version of Terry McMillan's best-selling 1992 potboiler about lonely, frustrated black women and no-good men has become a catalyst for discussions about sisterhood and relations with the opposite sex. "It teaches you that you need to find peace within yourself. It has characters anyone can identify with," says Sabrina Williams, of Washington, who has seen it three times. "It will further a dialogue my friends and I have been having...
...This win right here is going to be a catalyst," junior forward Chris Grancio said after last night's game. "Even though we didn't play all that great, we still...
...Catalyst? Didn't play all that great in a blowout win? Are there even bigger things on the Crimson horizon? Is such a notion possible for the Harvard men's basketball team...
...well as the Crimson shot, its great defense was the real catalyst for its ever-expanding lead. That quick 6-1 lead slowly but surely expanded to 17-7 mid-way through the first half. Junior Kyle Snowden's nine first half points and senior Michael Gilmore's six helped stretch the lead to 35-24 at the half. The game seemed firmly in hand at the half because Harvard had overcome Army's one sustained run due to Harvard's superior foul shooting...