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...says editor Anna Wintour. "Whether she's going to follow it, I don't know." Meanwhile, some would make over Wintour. While lunching at New York City's haute Four Seasons, she was approached by a woman who flung a dead raccoon on her plate and screamed, "Anna wears fur hats!" The activist then fled, and an unrepentant Wintour calmly said to a tablemate, "Merry Christmas...
Peissel first heard about the gold-digging marmots in 1983, while traveling on the Indian side of the border. Local Minaro tribesmen told him that their ancestors extracted gold from sand that stuck to the rodents' fur and was deposited on the surface. Trouble was, the marmots were located on the Pakistani side of the cease-fire line in an area that is regularly strafed with mortar and gunfire. It took Peissel 14 years to get permission to visit the region under Pakistani military escort. But he is convinced it was worth the wait. "The expedition's findings at long...
...film's sunny beginning is soon shattered by Cruella De Vil, who hatches a plot to steal the puppies in order to satisfy her obsessive desire for a Dalmatian fur coat. De Vil is Disney's wildest villain: slinky, sophisticated, overbearing, and utterly deranged. Given the chance to indulge herself by playing such a comically evil figure, Glenn Close delivers a masterful and unrestrained performance. Close gets to verbally abuse every character in the movie, shouting her insults with contempt and devilish glee. She also perfects the look of materialistic dementia that defines Cruella's character. Because the puppies...
...Harvard-Yale Game was a social event," he says. "When we played in New Haven, you should have seen the special trains lined up at the station. You should have seen the mink coats, the fur coats. Everybody came--from Washington, New York. Oh God, was it a big thing...
Wrong and dull, O wise one. And lugubrious. And sloppily written. And humorless. Not a laugh in a carload. Somebody send author Hoeg a Fawlty Towers tape! Somebody hit that ape in the kisser with a custard pie! And in your shiny fur, is that a flea I see--that Hoeg, in his solemnity, has missed...