Word: husking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main square around the Hotel Metohija, the city lay in silent ruin. Whole neighborhoods had been reduced to knee-deep rubble. Not a soul walked the streets. In Kapasnica, the section known as Little Albania, house after house, down every street in every direction, was a vacant husk, broken-walled and covered in soot. The only sound was the screech of jackdaws, the distant scurrying of a mangy dog and the drip, drip, drip of broken water pipes...
...stocking tasty new varieties. And sometime this summer or early fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to put soy on its short list of foods that may actually lower the risk of heart disease. (The others are fiber-containing fruits, vegetables, whole grains and psyllium seed husk...
Austin Sloper, a prominent New York doctor, first enters after a day spent delivering someone's child. His solicitous care of other families stands in cruel ironic contrast to the distant, detached husk he becomes in his own household. His daughter, by contrast, exists in perpetually stunted emotional tumult. In her first line, she seeks approval from her aunt Lavinia (Eve Johnson), holding the skirt of her new dress, nervously asking, "Do you like the color...
...also true that food can pose a threat in any locale. Recall President Ford's run-in with a tamale in San Antonio, Texas, when he tried to bite into it before removing the corn-husk wrapper. But New York is where they pile Pelion on Ossa--or kreplach on calzone. Democratic operatives still speak of the near disasters that occurred when first Robert Kennedy and then George McGovern sat down at kosher delicatessens and ordered a sandwich--and a glass of milk...
...Albert Brooks at his word and not mince superlatives. I'll Do Anything is better than the Mona Lisa. It's also pretty darned fine as a movie, though it takes a while to find its pace and tone. You won't miss the songs; this is not the husk of a musical. It is a lovely, wayward comedy in high Jim Brooks style, with all his pinwheeling wit and edgy ruminations. Who needs production numbers? I'll Do Anything still sings...