Word: floats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barges and ferryboats float along one side while automobile traffic skitters by on the other. Just past Grant's Tomb on the Hudson it looms: seven city blocks of arched white concrete with miles of pretzeling pipes and a sprouting of cylindrical smokestacks. This is the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, processor for a billion gallons of sewage a week and a monument in its own right. For decades, pols, bureaucrats and engineers here tangled over how to deal with so many people flushing and washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River...
...both made the All-New England Division I First Team. Forman played more minutes as the tournament progressed, nursing a hand injury that did not seem to hamper his play. Peter Richards was selected to the second team. Nick Branca and Eric Bentley also contributed to the barely a-float offense in the first two games...
...touching story, but one could wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of a float of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, whose long trunk is considered phallic, Sweet Sixteen is pushed into a taxi to take her to her first sexual encounter...
...days of Muhammed, boxing was the greatest of sports and Ali was the king. He brought to the sport his arrogance and his wit, his showmanship and his deadly punches. He brought to it controversy (his refusal to participate in the Vietnam War) and poetry ("float like a butterfly, sting like...
Like Gino, the movie could easily float on its charm, old-fashioned values and easy humor. But as a comedy, it lacks the Mamet bite. One would hardly have expected him to make a film that most grandmothers would love. But then, Things Change...