Search Details

Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Finally, the glacier itself: a sheer cliff of white bleeding into rock. It's moving - though we can't see it - but the melting is visible in a raging river that pours down its side, as if bleeding. The Greenlanders in our group say it melts more and more each summer and recovers less and less. Actually, the speed of the glacier toward the sea has slowed in recent years - but that's not because there's more ice. Paradoxically, because so much ice has melted away in central Greenland, there is less pressure on the coastal glaciers to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Greenland, a Memoir of the Earth | 8/2/2008 | See Source »

...capped at just over $460,000 per film. To get a sense of the competition facing industry entrants, one only needs to compare this level of financing to that of the Chinese-language film dominating the city's movie houses this season - John Woo's Chinese historical drama Red Cliff, which with its estimated $80 million budget is Asia's most expensive movie to date. The trend for increasingly expensive epics will eventually lose steam, of course. But nobody is sure that Hong Kong's film industry will be ready with a replacement when it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Syndrome | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...appreciate it if you head off to Greece or the Caribbean. A week in unglamorous Southwold also fits well with the slight air of austerity that Brown has used to mark a break with his flashier former boss and rival Blair, famous for his breaks in aging pop star Cliff Richard's Barbados house and Bee Gee Robin Gibb's Florida mansion. Britain is the "best place in the world to have a holiday," said Brown last summer. This from a man who was a regular visitor to Cape Cod until he became Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Into Leaders' Vacation Spots | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...feast." If a man resists the leadership, he risks losing his wife (or wives) and his home, she says. "If a woman does, her children are taken from her." The coercive power of the FLDS is immense, she says. "Right now, leaving the FLDS is like jumping off a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat on Polygamists | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...original Isabell Kristensen couture dress is provided. Other perks en route include a stay at Dubai's Al Maha resort with a hot-air balloon ride over the Arabian desert; a private visit to the Maharaja's Gem Palace in Jaipur; and a wine-tasting at the Vine Cliff vineyard in San Francisco, after which you select a case to take home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible $1 Million Journey | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Next