Word: lures
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ambition to bring entertainment and perhaps enlightenment to black audiences was laudable. Yet the poverty of means and technique, of skill and experience, gave these movies a rough quality. Often they had no quality at all. Indeed, for many modern viewers, the lure of race-cast movies is their incompetence. So many are finalists for those Golden Turkey Awards...
Still, if the project ever materializes, the lure for adventure sports junkies should be near irresistible. Imagine it: Extreme Golf, a surefire X-Games hit, where players are advised to carry a minesweeper along with their three wood, and a round really might cost...
That in itself is an indication, perhaps, of how the Netherlands has changed. The multicultural approach has given way to the idea of integrating minorities, but it hasn't happened fast enough to counter the lure of a figure like Fortuyn. First- and second-generation foreign-born amount to about 17% of the Dutch population, roughly the same as in other West European countries and the U.S., says Erasmus migration expert Han Entzinger. In Rotterdam itself, the figure rises to 45%, and in some neighborhoods - and many schools - it is much higher. To promote integration, the Netherlands in 1998 began...
...COKIE ROBERTS She'll step down this fall as co-host of ABC's This Week. The 58-year-old broadcast veteran's kids are grown, but "I want a life," she said. Rumors that ABC execs were seeking new talent to lure a younger audience may have rankled as well...
...weakening of Todd also makes the character at times incongruous and, worse, uninteresting. The text too often calls for him to use wit, intelligence and logic, making it unbelievable that he could so deftly educate Anthony in wigmaking, arrange his daughter’s rescue from bedlam and lure the judge to his death chamber. Margo is even prevented from enjoying the brilliant humor in an abbreviated “A Little Priest...