Word: lone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after the Defense Secretary was forced to abandon his first choice for the job, Air Force General Joseph Ralston, because of the disclosure that the general had had an affair more than a decade ago. This time Cohen knew he needed a winner. After just six months as the lone Republican in Clinton's Cabinet, Cohen was already being typed as too timid and pointy-headed for the job. A second failed candidacy would have been disastrous. After an initial round of interviews with the five finalists two weeks ago, Cohen and his top aides huddled to judge the candidates...
...called Golden Age (with the possible exception of "Ben-Hur"), David Lean's epic deserves to be seen on the big screen. The sweeping expanses of sand and sky, desert cliffs, even the startlingly blue ribbon of the Mediterranean Sea; the small, pencil-thin figure of a lone rider, shimmering in the distance like a mirage; the long convoys of Bedouin warriors, dwarfed by the sea of sand--all of these, seen in 70-mm and magnificently accompanied in stereo by Maurice Jarre's glittering music, are worlds away from the reduced-version, letterbox format to which they've been...
...road from San Diego to Los Angeles, unlike the path from one web site to another or even the avenue from graduation day to a full-fledged career, the directions and milestones are clearly marked. Forty-five miles north of home is the border patrol checkpoint, a lone reminder of the often tormented dividing line farther south. Slightly to the north, Interstate-5 turns from the coast inland, giving the driver a view of Disneyland's tallest attractions rather than the ocean's buoys. Along the way lie the ubiquitous fast-food restaurants, rest stops and mini-malls: reminders...
...meantime, learn more about apiaries than we really need to know. And are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story--qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer--would constitute that much of a sellout. Nunez's film neither floats like a butterfly nor stings like a bee. It just drones...
...just know that this austere refusal of the conventionally melodramatic will eventually win 'Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story -- qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer -- would constitute that much of a sellout...