Word: giant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lesbian relationship shouldn't shock us, and neither should the inevitable murder, but somehow the viscerality and the emotional reality of violence manage to penetrate more effectively in "Heavenly, Creatures" than in a dozen "Pulp Fictions," Peter Jackson's film may flail from giant butterflies to the prossic rituals of tea-time, but in the end he manages to concentrate all the diffuse energy into pure, gritty horror...
State Treasurer Joseph D. Malone '78 claimed that the "program is a giant step for families throughout Massachusetts," and said he hopes "Harvard will reconsider...
State Treasurer Joseph D. Malone '78 claimed that the "program is a giant step for families throughout Massachusetts," and said he hopes "Harvard will reconsider...
...founding giant -- visionary, ruthless perhaps -- establishes the fortune. His sons try to consolidate it. As the generations follow one another, the founder's energy dissipates, like gases flung out from a star. Heirs proliferate. They squabble. Trust funds thin out. Distant cousins go for one another's throats. By the fourth or fifth generation, they are turning up with guilt complexes about the family name and about the founder's long-ago crimes of piracy. Some take to drugs, others to environmentalism. Some heir will tithe his trust fund to a cult. An heiress will be arrested in Saks...
...leaps that come from tackling fundamental problems in science. Tan's solution: continue supporting basic research -- like mapping the genes of the fugu, the poisonous blowfish prized by sushi chefs -- while at the same time prospecting for new drugs in Southeast Asia's flora and fauna for the British giant Glaxo...