Search Details

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


Usage:

...spaceship.") He builds the book around his 50th birthday present to himself, an air journey through Central America, the Amazon and the Caribbean with a mind-boggling array of sportsman's toys and a retinue of family, friends and assistants. "To work with Jimmy," says pilot Jim Powell, "you've got to think and whistle at the same time." Buffett and his little boy flew his huge, cacophonous 1947 Grumman Albatross seaplane; Jane and their youngest daughter rode in his Citation jet. ("Remember," he tells his audiences, "I am spending your money foolishly." Right now, he's thinking about buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...draws in the audience--even those completely ignorant of Russian history--with a flurry of fake snow and a lively political debate going on between two babushkas. These sprightly women, however, quickly turn into the mindlessly smiling grandmothers they are supposed to be as soon as Vassily Vorovilich Smokov (Jim Augustine '01) and Serge Esmereldovich Upgobkin (Paul Siemens '98) enter the scene. These minor female characters' highly-charged dialogue is hysterical by itself, but the combination of ironic political statements and the bizarreness of the situation is pure comic genius. Translation: even if you don't know a Bolshevik from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...Jim Floerchinger, the new water polo coach, is the former head coach from Lehman College. Floerchinger, 26, has coached on the international level for the U.S. College, U.S. Club and New Zealand national teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming, Polo Get New Coaches | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...Stone is a big fan--he made a movie about Jim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...Dangerous precedent: Stone might get stuck with Jim Garrison and Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next