Word: lair
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...missing: Currun Singh ’07, a bit tipsy and hiding in a closet, was trying to salvage what had become a disastrous class. The lecturer asked a question and Singh piped up (“very intelligently, too!” he claims) from his hidden lair. Trying to surprise the lecturer, Singh turned the doorknob—only to discover he was locked in. After a fellow classmate and conspirator freed him, Singh, who while concealed had inexplicably covered himself with remnants of band uniforms, burst from his hideaway, singing “I Will Survive?...
...though I doubt the folks at the Regal dwelled overmuch on this aspect. Jigsaw's main victim is Jeff (Angus McFayden), who has been consumed with bilious revenge since his beloved son was killed by a driver who received a light prison sentence. Now in Jigsaw's lair, Jeff must go through several torture tests to prove he can forgive those who wronged him. In an apparently unrelated "B" story, Jigsaw has kidnaped Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), a doctor, to see if she can relieve the pain of his brain tumor. For those who think horror movies aren't brain surgery...
...error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server, and you'll be downing cocktails and nibbling on dim sum in minutes. Our test troupe of warblers featured dead ringers for Alanis Morissette alongside nervous off-key newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give up the microphone...
...force managed to destroy most of Hizballah's arsenal of long-range missiles, capable of reaching Tel Aviv, in the opening salvos of the conflict. Back then, it seemed only a matter of days, or hours, before an Israeli smart-bomb would find its way to the lair of Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah. That possibility now seems a longshot...
...frequent guest. He once served as a federal cabinet minister?and later spent years in jail for insurrection. His band of men move between mountain hideouts, sleeping in caves. Bugti says he uses "a rock for my pillow." Reached through a satellite phone by Time in his mountain lair, Bugti spoke of how he deals with pain (he is partially paralyzed in one leg), temperatures of 45?C, and the perils of waging a guerrilla war against 26,000 Pakistani soldiers in Baluchistan: "Physical hardship?pain, the extreme heat?this is all a state of mind. You either give into...