Word: fallen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FROM THE BEGINNING OF this trial, I have believed that we were watching Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill all over again. To me this murder is a gender crime, and I have been fascinated that everyone--the media, the public, law-enforcement personnel--has fallen into the defense-sprung trap of looking at it as a racial episode. In the process, of course, it has become one. But as we wait for the verdict, I feel exactly the way I did that weekend back in 1991 when Anita Hill testified: we absolutely knew who was telling the truth...
...ultimately a great deal more than the total of his brand-name likes and dislikes. High Fidelity focuses on his efforts to regain the love of an ex-girlfriend, and throughout, Rob is drawn poignantly as a man who has loved up and fallen down--enamored of women who are too beautiful and accomplished to stay with him. Hornby is as fine an analyst as he is a funny man, and his book is a true original...
Alienation is higher among men at 55 percent than women at 31 percent and rises from 30 percent among the lowest income group to 55 percent among those with the highest income. The percentage of people who say they are at least somewhat of a fan has fallen to 33 percent from 40 percent in March...
What's going on here? Are fickle voters again signaling their preference for the new and different and seemingly nonpolitical? Has a nation vexed by its racial divisions fallen in love with a self-described "nonthreatening kind of black man"? Or is Powell merely proving himself a master of titillation? He's been "out there" for just a week, but we've already glimpsed Powell's shrewdness--and it now seems more likely that he'd run as a Republican than as an independent...
...first-time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, whose range of literary allusions runs from Dante to Chaucer but whose gift for low-genre necessities--suspense, jeopardy, snappy dialogue--is nonexistent. His big idea is that man is vile and that cities are catch basins for the worst of our fallen breed. He must be very young...