Word: maximalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lakeside cottage, others "borrow" pipes for a private plumbing job or barter for extra gasoline to make a weekend excursion. Released in 1978, the film drew packed houses in theaters across the country during its run. The boffo business was not surprising in a country where the most popular maxim among workers remains "If you aren't cheating, then you are cheating your own family...
...retreats. He seems constitutionally incapable of becoming too morose. After all, when pressed, he admits that one role he would really like to sing is neither a villain nor a victim but the dashing hero of Lehar's The Merry Widow: Count Danilo, the high-spirited habitue of Maxim...
...regrettable maxim of the '80s is that frivolity has become the mother of invention. The latest evidence: Andy Warhol, 51, the lifeless doyen of Pop art, is being immortalized as a lifelike robot. The copy is the work of Alvaro Villa, 42, a onetime Disney animator, who claims that the computerized dummy will be barely distinguishable from the real thing. Villa will bless A2W2 with preprogrammed speech and 54 separate body movements. Upon completion, the $400,000 robot will hit the road as the star of a $1.25 million multimedia road show called Andy Warhol's Overexposed...
...favorite sermons. King would often quote a French philosopher's remark that "No man is great who does not bear within his character antitheses strongly marked." King provides the best example for that maxim...
...Harvard seems to be gambling that the same maxim will hold true again. It hopes the substantial gains women have made on campus will include similar complacency, allowing University Hall to pull out of RUS, the Clearinghouse and perhaps other commitments to women...