Word: mane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...full of stars. Yanni Live at the Acropolis provides all three of these elements: the starry Greek night, 48-track digital recording and for those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark locks, sensuous mustache and penetrating eyes. Yanni could be Samson with his mane, Jesus with his prophetic utterances or that mysterious European stranger who woos single female travelers, only to turn out to be a con man. What he actually is simple: a sex symbol with a piano and orchestra. He's like Tom Selleck and Neil Diamond rolled up into one, which...
What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...
...least, a virulent strain of anti-feminism running through this novel. Margaret, at age 28, agonizes about her husband's purported infidelity moaning that "he has forsaken my aging flesh for-for what? To lose him to some exquisite little girl with long hair flicking like a horse's mane, a student drawn to him and he to her, intoxicated with the wine dark words of Walt Whitman, yes, okay, that's as it should be." Since when does turning 30 signal the onset of senescence? Admittedly, there is a certain fragility to women's social status as they...
...extent to which this University allows its members to engage in activities which ultimately cheapen the Harvard mane never ceases to amaze me. The disproportionate attention that the school lavishes on the sodomizers among members of its community is one such example...
...written in their constitution that they have to do things which are mane." Taylor said. "Many members of the Republican Club are unhappy with its inactive role in the real political world...