Word: inner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morning of Jan. 14, Stanley Williams, a U.S. volcanologist from Arizona State University, led a team of nine other scientists to the 13,680- ft. summit. Williams stayed on the rim and watched as two colleagues clambered down ropes toward the volcano's inner cone -- Nestor Garcia, a Colombian, to set up a temperature probe; Igor Menyailov, a Russian, to sample gases coming out of vents. Williams and Menyailov, who had taught himself English by listening to Elvis Presley records, had been friends since they first met in 1982 on a volcano watch in Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because...
...exhibitionistic recluse -- is everywhere. For the Clinton Inauguration, he led an all-star reunion of his 1985 We Are the World chorale. He spurred the Super Bowl to the largest U.S. TV audience ever, supervising a 98,000-person flash-card promotion for his Heal the World charity for inner-city children. He appeared at the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards and the American Music Awards ceremonies...
...other times, Hwang forgets the cardinal rule and lets his characters tell rather than show; Randall spells out, "This change in appearance has somehow changed the inner man." In impeding the otherwise rich evolution of plot and character with soapbox monologues, Face Value underestimates its audience. Hopefully, much of the speechifying will be cut as Face Value continues its pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, so that nothing detracts from the attention the plot and characters deserve...
...talk, he used his personal experience as an example of the lack of role models for young Black men in the inner city...
...Clinton has proved able to juggle the demands of the new assignment and the traditional role. After dropping her daughter off at school last Tuesday, she hopped on the 8:30 a.m. shuttle to New York City for a visit to a gritty inner-city school that would have given Barbara Bush a run for her photo op. Looking not at all powerful sitting at a child-size desk, she leaned her head on her hand like any middle schooler perplexed by long division and confided that math "was hard" for her too. She rewarded the winner of multiplication bingo...