Word: gibe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THINLY VEILED GIBE...
...learn this month that at least 66 head of conventionally cloned cattle had been quietly butchered and marketed without any government announcement. To allay fears about the meat's safety, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa ate cloned beef on TV while aides noted that it was genetically unaltered and--a gibe at U.S. growers--untreated with hormones...
...Matthew T. Kishlansky '00 knew that being a `faculty brat' at Harvard would carry certain stigmas, not the least of which being that his dad would gibe him publicly, given the opportunity. "I made fun of my parents at my high school graduation and I've been doing time ever since," Matt says. But his father's witticisms aren't a form of revenge--he didn't even remember the graduation speech. "I would do it anyway," the professor quips. "He can take...
...title, a sly gibe at John Updike, Rabbit at Rest and all the other Rabbits, is worth a smile. Here, McMurtry's Duane Moore, 62, rich, beset by family and bored to a frazzle, flummoxes his Texas town by ditching his pickup truck and walking everywhere. The book is within cat-kicking distance of funny. Real guys don't walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist...
Steve Lopez's report on the Million Pound March, a demonstration in support of the rights of overweight people [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 14], was a trite, meanspirited diatribe against fat people. His thoughtless reiteration of every stereotyped gibe used against the obese is the reason the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance exists. LESLIE C. WARREN Ellicott City...