Word: cousin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long as you can still hear and see, you'll never run out of stories. I ran into an ancient cousin of mine a week ago, and she told me something I'd never heard before. My grandfather Keillor died before I was born, and she told me that every night, he lifted my grandmother into his arms--he's a farmer, a big woodworking guy--and carried her upstairs into bed. He had a big mustache and beautiful singing voice. From that, you could come up with a whole year's worth of stories almost...
...Victoria in Dover). Victoria left ample and surprisingly intimate diaries, as well as her sketchbooks, which provided evidence of her platonic infatuation with Lord M. (she mostly got misty-eyed over the idea of him as a young man) and her nearly instantaneous attraction to her cousin Albert, whom she described as "extremely handsome ... he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth" - which is certainly true of Friend...
...Group, a market-research firm, says the average price for LCD TVs was down 22%, to $535, during the week of Black Friday. Notebook-computer prices dropped 26%, to $500, and unit sales of computers increased a whopping 63%. Prices for netbooks, the lighter, more portable cousin to traditional laptop computers, also dropped. Camcorder prices fell 33%. And these days, the deals extend beyond Black Friday. "One of the phenomena we are seeing is that retailers are really stretching the promotional period," says Ross Rubin, consumer-electronics analyst at NPD. "Retailers are looking to prime the pump...
...delivery is appropriately adolescent, all but reprising a more frustrated Max Fischer—the protagonist of “Rushmore,” the movie that made both him and Anderson famous. The dynamic that Ash shares with his parents, his schoolmates, and particularly his cousin add charming wrinkles where “Fantastic Mr. Fox” could have been dangerously slick...
Just a few minutes away from Hong Kong's buzzing SoHo district is NoHo, its hipper, more laid-back younger cousin. Lying (as you might guess from its acronymic name) north of Hollywood Road, and occupying the length of Gough Street between Aberdeen and Shing Wong Streets, it was once mainly home to family-run shops and small printing presses. These days, though, NoHo is an enclave of independent boutiques and contemporary-art galleries, chichi cafés and old-school dai pai dong or cooked-food stalls. Here are 10 reasons to visit. (See 10 things...