Search Details

Word: fancier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Park is listed at $260 to $325 a month; the same thing costs $185 to $250 in Peabody Terrace (although that will go up soon) and $154 in Holden Green. One reason for the higher prices is the cost of the building, but another is that it's considerably fancier than its Cambridge counterparts. It would be hard to imagine faculty members living in the slightly seedy Holden Green, after...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Room With a View | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...biggest weekend of the year. The 7,500 participants and spectators jammed the town's five motels and four restaurants. At Zup's Market the run on dog food was so fierce that supplies quickly gave out. Mayor Jack Grahek, himself a Husky fancier, opened up his own stockpile to ensure that none of the 2,500 canine guests would go hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog Days in Winter | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...major studio (Columbia) with the benefit of a full-scale ad campaign. No exclusive linage in the sex sheets, no adhesive stickers for the walls of public toilets. Emmanuelle is being hyped as a classier breed of porn. It is as if being French somehow makes it fancier. Accordingly, there are windy full-page newspaper ads that inquire coyly, "What is the most sensual part of your body?" Several of the more likely possibilities are dismissed before the lofty conclusion is reached: the mind, the erogenous zone that is allegedly the most susceptible to Emmanuelle's charms. Anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queen Klong | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...Myron is a staid and politically conservative Southern Californian, a caterer of Chinese food, a dog fancier and the husband of the lovely Mary-Ann, whom Myra lusted after in Book I. Yet deep within Myron the old Myra lives on, awaiting the moment to reassert her evil nature - or, as she likes to put it, to become "the Embodiment of Necessary Mutancy on the verge of creating a superrace, in my image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Myra Lives! | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...KNEW LIFE wasn't going to be easy on the outside, especially when on the morning of commencement I found that my good ol' run-of-the-mill, blend-into-the-crowd cap and gown had, presto-chango, become a considerably fancier, stick-out-like-a-sore thumb Juris Doctor gown and cap two sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: The Year Off | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

Previous | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | Next