Word: fainted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...Primetime Live aired a segment charging the Food Lion supermarket chain with the kind of bad housekeeping that would cause Martha Stewart to faint. Armed with hidden cameras, PrimeTime producers posing as food handlers infiltrated several Food Lion stores to expose alleged wrongdoings, including repackaging old chicken with cosmetically enhancing barbecue sauce and falsifying expiration dates. In addition to disturbing footage, PrimeTime aired interviews with seven current and former Food Lion employees who gave firsthand accounts of the chain's unsanitary handling practices. Moreover, PrimeTime anchor Diane Sawyer noted that producers had collected similar horror stories from more than...
...will be appearing this Monday at the Brattle Theatre along with Ware, has finally completed his magnum opus, “Black Hole,” serialized over a decade and now available in a single tome. “Black Hole” is not for the faint of heart. Like Clowes and Crumb, Burns explores the mediocrity of the suburbs and the disappointment and isolation of the teenaged years...
...pants hearken back to the androgyny of 1930s glamour, as opposed to the glamour of the Tori Spelling’s hit “Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?” These pants are voluminous when cut correctly, and so this statement is not for the faint of heart. Wear these pants with a simple or form fitting shirt and try to laugh in a throaty manner while throwing your head back so quickly that you almost shatter your spinal column...
...cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe. The net, accompanied by a faint scowl, made Clark seem severe; the hard hat, by comparison, gives her a jolly air. But through all the costume changes dictated by her image makers, Clark's reputation as a decisive and intelligent leader is holding firm. The P.M. may not always be loved, but she is respected - and there...