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...RETIRED. CONCORDE, the sleek, chic, supersonic passenger jet; on May 31, after 27 years of service, by Air France; in Roissy, France. Despite stratospheric ticket prices?more than $10,000 for some flights?the jet's profitability nose-dived following a July 2000 crash in which 113 people were killed. Increasing maintenance expenses and a slumping aviation industry compounded Concorde's woes. British Airways, the only other airline flying the jet, plans to ground its fleet...
...Chester Brown makes the design of "Louis Riel" match its concept of history as viewed through a personal lens. He strives for historical accuracy in every way except the characters, who are deliberately cartoonish - sometimes absurdly so. Canada's Prime Minister, Sir. John McDonald has a comically gigantic gibbous nose. Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit. In the final issue, Brown cites Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" as a major influence, and the comparison is dead on. From the thin, uniformly weighted pen lines...
Speaking with a forked tongue used to be a bad thing. Now it's apparently a rad thing among those who aren't content merely to pierce their tongue, eyebrows, nose, lips, nipples and other, more delicate body parts. Yes, a small number of thrill seekers and rebels--estimates range from 500 to 2,000--have slashed their tongues to try to give them a more serpentine appearance. And that has more than a few doctors and dentists worried...
...hidden pain nursed by every bleacher bum: "We would never be part of that golden company on the field, which each of us, certainly for one moment of his life, had wanted more than anything else in the world to join." It's like being a Muggle with your nose pressed up against the gates of Hogwarts...
...upcoming formal, your friendly neighborhood final clubs, some steamy party in Leverett Towers—you probably don’t think twice about seeing a straight couple making out in those contexts, but would you be so blithe about a queer pairing? Would you wrinkle your nose at two boys? Would you hoot and holler at two girls? Would you squint and stare at a couple whose genders you couldn’t figure out? These are the double standards which today’s kiss-in hopes to highlight. Certainly, we understand that different codes of conduct apply...