Word: itemizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These machines will not be used full-time in all the houses. Instead, they will be programmed to ask specific questions when HDS needs student feedback on a particular menu item or meal...
...looks like the engagement between Gary Oldman and Isabella Rossellini is off. Gregory Mosher, a theater director and producer of American Buffalo, is saying that he and Rossellini are now an item. Reps for the actress, whose former loves include Martin Scorsese and David Lynch, refused to comment (and slammed down the phone...
...small item of proof is the New York Times's "Vows" feature in the weddings-and-engagements section on Sundays. Once this section was a cathedral of boring probity; brides appeared to be photographed in wax, and weddings were reported as the cornerstone layings on national monuments. Now the "Vows" feature (the name itself suggests something ironic and tenuous) describes weddings that sound like the Ritz Brothers' movies, and the happy couple are sometimes photographed in such a way as to indicate that they will go directly from the altar to a mental hospital...
...event, the ideal mate is practically no more, which may be just as well since the ideal anything is always a setup for tragedy. But what has replaced this cultural item is not much more attractive. It is, in a sense, the ideal of the unideal. The assumption behind television sitcoms contemporaneous with Vertigo was that the husbands and wives--in such shows as Father Knows Best and The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet--were perfect for each other. They had their ideal mates; that's why they were married. The assumption behind current shows like Friends and Seinfeld is that...
...Your item on Pennsylvania representative Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 30], contained numerous errors, the most egregious of which was the allegation that an amendment to the House Coast Guard reauthorization bill would "shield cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships." This is absolutely false. The House bill does no such thing. In fact, it expressly protects the right to sue if there is substantial physical injury, the threat of such injury or an intentional act. Moreover, Congressman Shuster's position on this issue has been...