Word: glassing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oughta: Sissy Spacek, Crimes of the Heart. She was real good in this so-so movies. I toast that little loony with a glass of lipsmackin' lemonade...
...course not true that the prisoner's way of talking was noticeably Californian. But Clumly hated California, or anyway felt alarmed by it...Clumly's wife was a blind woman with bright glass eyes and small, pinched features and a body as white as his own. Her small shoulders sagged and her neck was long, so that her head seemed to sway above her like a hairy sunflower. He minded the way she filled her teacup one finger over the rim to watch the level, and he minded the way she talked to herself perpetually, going about the house with...
DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
Whatever the behavior of the Harvard spectators, one thing was certain: the Crimson victory was heavenly. After the game, the Harvard band draped a banner over the glass that proclaimed the Crimson ECAC Champion. The cloth banner fell to the ice once and Harvard forward Steve Armstrong triumphantly lifted it back over with his stick...
Hand-painted tiles, stained-glass windows and brass samovars have transformed a drab warehouse in Valencia into a Dublin interior, circa 1904. Actors and actresses in long gowns, high collars and tails move about a realistic drawing room replete with chandelier and an old-fashioned square piano; in another room a dining table is set for 16 people. Outside, plastic snow falls steadily. In failing health, near the end of his career, John Huston is filming James Joyce's great short story The Dead...