Word: mentions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...August 1994 and ended up contributing an entire muscle group, the sartorius, to some grizzly's brunch. Or there was the guy who returned to his rental cabin in Alaska to find a black bear "feeding on" his erstwhile wife, as a newspaper tactfully put it. Not to mention any number of sleeping campers whose sleeping bags were somehow mistaken for hot-dog rolls...
Then came the quietest moment of the ceremonies, just the old sweet song of Georgia on My Mind, performed by Gladys Knight. She in turn gave way to the new, sweet, if somewhat pretentious Summertime allegory, which featured giant puppets, a riverboat and 440 butterflies, not to mention quotes from Zora Neal Hurston, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner...
When President Fidel Castro recently addressed 170 Cuban athletes leaving for Atlanta, he made mention of the defections, calling the 28-year-old Arrojo a "Judas who sold out his country for 12 gold coins." Castro also told his Olympians, "More than medals of gold, silver or bronze, what interests us is the medals of morals and honor." Cuban baseball officials, who are used to this sort of thing by now, were more blase and fatalistic about Arrojo's departure, even though Arrojo pitched six shutout innings against Team USA on June 29. Third baseman Omar Linares, the player long...
...withholding father/big brother substitute. Armchair analysis is notably warranted here, and Levy notably restrained in providing it, given that one of Lewis' salient attributes as a performer is that he exudes a palpable sense of self-satisfaction coupled with an unslakeable, almost scary thirst for adoration--not to mention, as his career progressed and then faltered, an underlying rage. In fact, Levy argues convincingly that Lewis' Nutty Professor alter ego, the suave, egotistical and nasty crooner Buddy Love, is more a knowing self-portrait than, as is generally assumed, a satiric jab at Martin...
...first mention of this Culture, I cowered. With visions of 200 exchanges of "hello-my-name-is-where-do-you-go-to-school-what's-your-major-what's-your-sign," I decided I'd be the exception to the rule. I would work eight hours a day in my office with three other interns--and head home immediately afterwards...