Word: liven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pelham says that the only parts of the building he truly likes are the galleries and the entrance, where he sits. Even the entrance, he says, "they could liven up with some plants or something...
...play. Part of the problem is institutional. Races are short and the program drags midway through the evening, as obscure riders who lost in the first qualifying heats struggle to make it into the main event. So the track announcer screams and promotors import a variety of sideshows to liven up the evening...
...production often sorely lacking in energy, some members of the cast try valiantly to liven things up Thomas Derrah, who played a puckish Tom Sawyer in the A R T's recent production of Big River, shows his versatility in the role of Wheeler His pockets overflow with ballpoint pens, he wears trousers hiked up around his crotch, glasses and a bow tie, and he carries a golf club all of which makes him resemble an anxious pre med before an exam more than a movie producer In the second act, Derrah's creepy qualities intensity as he sprouts fangs...
Spiffy uniforms liven up the office, the factory and the beat...
McMullan has been with the Knight (now Knight-Ridder) newspaper chain ever since 1957. When he was assigned to liven up its Washington bureau, his eagerness produced an uneasy rebuke from the bureau chief: "John, you were sent here to fill a vacuum, not overflow it." In 1970 McMullan left to execute a wholesale purge of the chain's newly acquired Philadelphia Inquirer. In three years, McMullan replaced a third of the paper's reporting staff, including virtually every department head. The overhaul was to turn the Inquirer into one of the strongest newspapers...