Word: gravell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much of this trouble, as the Unabomber argues, stems from technology. Suburbs are largely products of the automobile. (In the forthcoming book The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt notes the irony of Henry Ford, in his 60s, building a replica of his hometown--gravel roads, gas lamps--to recapture the "saner and sweeter idea of life" he had helped destroy.) And in a thousand little ways--from the telephone to the refrigerator to ready-made microwavable meals-technology has eroded the bonds of neighborly interdependence. Among the Aranda Aborigines of Australia, the anthropologist George Peter Murdock noted early this century...
...hard to enjoy the natural wonders, though, when ALVINN is behind the wheel, doing 88 km/h in the fast lane. First he lurches right, crossing both lanes of the blacktop and alarming bleary-eyed commuters trying to share the road. Then he careens to the left, skidding onto the gravel shoulder and nearly into a ditch. Finally Todd Jochem, 27, a graduate student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, wrests the wheel of the four-wheel-drive Humvee from ALVINN while Dean Pomerleau, a C.M.U. robotics research scientist, makes excuses for their friend's driving. ``I guess...
...lost his sons; rather harder for the mother who had surely lost her mind. But the hardest of all were for the boys. Dear God, let them have been asleep that night, snuggled in the safety of their car seats. That way they wouldn't have felt the rough gravel road through the forest, or seen the edge of the dark lake. They would not have wondered why their mother got out of the car, leaving the doors and windows shut tight, why the car was still moving forward with no one behind the wheel. It was too much...
...Channing whom one comes to see, and she exceeds expectations. Though she has played Dolly more than 4,000 times, her gawky, over-the-top performance is still heartfelt and honest, and the audience cheers her for it. There's more gravel in her baritone, but she is pitch-perfect and a mistress of timing. She can build a laugh into a roar by simply chewing. And her disdain is magnificent, contemplating a gift of "chocolate-covered peanuts -- unshelled...
...voguing, kids and grownups alike still want slow numbers that let them pull their partners close. "There's always been a ballad in the Top 10," says Foster. "People love something with heart." For a while, teens favored the "power ballads" put out by hard-rock bands with gravel-voiced vocalists, but Foster has helped bring back the singing group. All-4-One, Color Me Badd (co-produced by Foster), Boyz II Men and Jodeci are winning fans with street-corner harmonies reminiscent of the '50s and early...