Word: fondest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mubarak's fondest hope is that other Arab countries will follow Hussein's lead in forgiving Egypt. One possible recruit is Iraq, which has enjoyed the support of both Egypt and Jordan in its four-year war against Iran. The most valuable addition to the Recognize Egypt campaign would be Saudi Arabia, whose prestige and caution make it a nation that many neighbors would be willing to follow. TIME'S Philip Finnegan reports that for the past two years Saudi Arabian officials have been holding secret talks with the Egyptians in Cairo and Riyadh. The meetings have...
...deeply rooted sense of place," says Kennedy. "Without this element, the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst, a thin gruel of the ego." The author's fondest appreciation of his birthplace is O Albany (1984), three parts raffish history to one part autobiography...
...Bucyk's fondest memories is of scoring in the 1983 Beanpot. "He always tries a bit harder in the Beanpot," says Flaman, a former pro who played 10 years with the Bruins, including some with his captain's uncle...
Boyd did not shy away from tough cases. In one she helped white professors win a discrimination suit against predominantly black Alabama State University, ruffling some feathers in the black community. Boyd is fondest of civil liberties suits, but her heavy caseload also includes criminal, personal injury and domestic relations trial work. She is known as a hardworking, aggressive opponent in court. "She doesn't lose her cool, whether a case is going for or against her," says U.S. Appeals Court Judge Frank Johnson. As a result, Boyd, 33, is now taken very seriously indeed. "Word gets around," says...
...Sisters, a production by Rumanian Director Andrei Serban that transforms the customarily lugubrious Chekhov portrait of a doomed family into a knock about farce. Actors pout like children on a stage strewn with Producer toys. Earnest philosophizing about suffering and social evolution is played as vapid bourgeois chitchat. The fondest wish of the Prozorov sisters - to return to the gaiety of Moscow - is voiced as a giggling endearment to a baby. Yet the essence of the play is conveyed with antic energy and force. Serban adroitly manages a welter of themes: aimless ambition, futile romance, grotesque distortions of honor, loneliness...