Search Details

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


Usage:

...working in an ultra high-tech intensive care unit who's looking to make it big. That is, he's looking to get rich and sleep with as many women as possible on the way up. Ernst spends his days tending to patients whose state of health runs the gamut from vegetative to permanently comatose-a foreshadowing of the film's extremely limited scope. His one patient who is actually conscious is a terminally ill dialysis case (played with stunning grace by Jeffery Wright) praying for death...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sidney, Baby, We Gotta Talk | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...goes by the moniker Aphex Twin, personifies the problems inherent in trying to market electronica. His music ranges from hard-core techno frenzies to delicate, ethereal passages, none of which can be easily pigeonholed into a style or genre. On his latest release, Come To Daddy, he runs the gamut of electronica types, revealing both the limitations of the genre and its vast potential...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anti-Pop Techno Beaten to Death | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

According to Tapontsang, who eventually lived in eight different prisons, her life ran the gamut from sexual exploitation to starvation...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Tibetan Prisoner Speaks | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

...while ideas ranged across a broad gamut, none were as well-received as those of Cambridge comedian Jimmy Tingle, who warmed up the crowd before the debate...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Little Saturday Night Fever at Outdoor City Council Debate | 10/22/1997 | See Source »

...million that Texaco will pay out to settle a class-action discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark, a finance manager with an M.B.A., charges he was repeatedly passed over for a promotion. Despite successfully completing a long list of assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: ON THE JOB: EQUALITY PAYS | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next