Word: objects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1970s. The events of last week stood also as a grim reminder that it is not the American hostages in Iran that are the central object of U.S. foreign policy, but rather the potentially life-and-death relationship with the Soviet Union...
...story was interesting, but without a doubt, the most intriguing quote in the entire discourse was one from a Harvard professor: "The object is to look as if you were going to Middle Tennessee College." The remark was in reference to the attire of the Harvard student population, most notably the penchant for down-filled jackets and windbreakers...
Within the past decade, observations of x-rays from a handful of small regions within our Milky Way suggest that matter is being pulled into warped regions of space where gravity is almost unimaginably powerful. Such a regions not really an object, as much as a hole--a spatial domain from which neither visible nor invisible radiation can escape. It seems that the guts of black holes are unexplorable. But matter falling into such weird regions can, and apparently does, emit radiation just before being swallowed, perhaps forever...
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Buñuel again, poignantly returning to his great subject, sexual obsession...
...most mesmerizing pictures are those of the Russian Empire's peasants, who became the object of a near mystical cult in the latter part of the 19th century. Illiterate, impoverished and much abused, the peasants were known for their generous nature and a predilection for violence that sometimes led them to burn down the manor house, or even murder the squire, as happened to Dostoyevsky's serf-owning father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact...