Word: drips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newly carved cave fills with air, drops of water seep in through the walls and ceiling. Minerals trapped in these trickles begin to precipitate out of solution, hardening into a stunning array of underground ornaments. Stalactites drip down from the ceiling. Stalagmites creep up from the floor. Miniature forests made of twisted branches of calcium carbonate stretch out from the walls. Many of the formations are so delicate that they can easily be destroyed by the presence of humans...
Another, which reads more like an ad slogan("Don't hang up choice"), presents a new versionof the flag draped over a wire hanger: whitefemale signs have replaced the stars, and the redstripes drip blood. The not so-subtle imagerecalls the back-alley horror stories thatprecipitated the legalization of abortion...
...Billy Crystal, of the virtually annual Comic Relief TV shows to aid the homeless. Spend time with her, and you see that the raunchiness isn't part of her act; it's part of her nature. Clowning between takes with a photographer, she improvises a gross-out commercial, drip-drip-drip, for adult diapers. Ghost star Demi Moore reports that things got cheerfully vulgar during the shooting of that film. "She'd say, 'It's coming, I feel it coming,' and then let out a belch. It was so great. She just kept us laughing...
...mandate capital punishment, the condemned may die, in ascending order of frequency, by being hanged, by being shot by a firing squad, by inhaling cyanide gas, by electrocution or -- the newest method and a dog's death in more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited say in how he (death row's population is 98.5% male) goes...
Hasbro is offering Monster Face, a life-size plastic skull that comes complete with "blistering boil," "nose slime drip" and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...