Search Details

Word: hunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. They've been doing the heavy acting while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLY'S NEXT MOVE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...lungs will be in worse shape when I cross the Atlantic again, but so will my arteries. On my second night in Budapest, I digested a traditional Hungarian meal of cabbage stuffed with meat accompanied by a small black sausage, a slice of pork and a hunk of fat from an undetermined animal. The entire dish was sitting in deep red oil half-an-inch thick, and the cabbage was topped with sour cream...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Post-Communist Summer | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

...CHELSEA CLINTON. No sooner does she settle on a college than everyone begins speculating that her choice had nothing to do with Stanford's organic chemistry department but everything to do with some romantic chemistry she may have with a popular freshman named MARC MEZVINSKY. The shaggy-haired hunk squired her around campus last month, escorted her and a group of friends to a frat party and is rumored to have lined up a White House internship this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

Even so, he rejected scads of previous sitcom offers. "I've been joking that I even got pitched 3rd Negro from the Sun," he says. One idea had him and Greg Evigan--a white actor currently playing a deranged gay hunk on Melrose Place--paired as two men who discover at middle age that despite obvious dissimilarities, they are brothers. Katzenberg's offer appealed because it allowed the comic the freedom to cook up the sitcom he desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ARSENIO HALL: WHOOF! HERE HE IS AGAIN | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...darkness, with a visage as stark and stony as if it were a fifth face on Mount Rushmore. The image is fully aware of its iconic import, of the strength and frailty of stardom in late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene Hackman, who plays a sexually reckless U.S. President. E.G. Marshall, in the role of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN LIKE CLINT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next