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...helped make monster hits of High School Musical 3 ($84 million), Mamma Mia! ($144 million) and Sex and the City ($152 million). "[Female-centric films] used to be counterprogramming to something extremely male in the marketplace," says Chuck Viane, Disney's president of distribution. "Now they've become the gorilla in the marketplace." (Read Richard Corliss's review of Twilight...
...strong at the household level. Basically any house that wants one, has one. It's hard to imagine what the next big thing might be that everyone is going to want, that's going to be big enough to drive the economy out of a recession. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the housing market. Until that sorts itself out, it's going to get worse until it gets better. And when it gets better, it will be a driver of change...
...very afraid. But wait, it’s a fake out! Soon a bearded mystery man arrives to break up the revelry, and the meat of this strange message begins. It all seems so simple and innocent: the sunny Malkmus-style intro riff, the bright multicolored lighting, the stuffed gorilla holding a baseball bat—but I know there’s something evil going on here. Just look at drummer Greg Saunier’s devilish eyes as he viciously hits his cymbal in a downward stabbing motion, or how the band seems to revere the stuffed gorilla...
Wall Street thinks Stitzer can do it. In the first half of 2008, sales (unadjusted for currency) rose 14%, to $5.27 billion. Cadbury's clever drumming-gorilla ads helped too. Morgan Stanley said in a recent report that "unlike with many other consumer stocks, we expect Cadbury's earnings growth to accelerate." Says David Morris, food and beverage research director at Mintel International Group, a market-research company: "The spin-off is a smart move. Investors had felt these businesses weren't getting their appropriate valuations when they were combined." As stand-alones, they can also grow by attracting merger...
...National Terror Cricket is an 800-pound gorilla that has smothered all other sports in India ("Subcontinental Shift," June 30 - July 7). It hogs the media, sponges all the sponsorship, and makes idols of mediocre, inconsistent and narcissistic athletes. Even the sport's bandwagon followers manage to spend hours discussing endless inanities about the turn of a ball or the long hair of a wicketkeeper. If India produces any world-class contenders in, say, chess or shooting or racing, it is a tribute to their doggedness and talent that they flourish despite the specter of cricket looming above them like...