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...wisdom in a society in which even the highest officials in the land propagate outlandish conspiracy theories. The speaker of Iraq's parliament, Mahmud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni, announced at a press conference in Bahrain that "an entire Israeli brigade has entered Iraq ... trying to infiltrate various parties." That phantom force, he continued, is "camped at Babylon, whose destruction signifies the survival of the state of Israel in their holy books...
Fantastic stories often stray into fantasy—who knew? As if faux-memoir writer James Frey weren’t enough, hip literary circles have been rocked by the revelation that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV-positive queer writer of “autobiographical” childhood truck-stop prostitute tales, does not exist, and his rags-to-riches memoirs are a hoax. Oh, the critics bemoan, what happened to the importance of being honest? Where lies the lost virtue of authenticity? A better question might...
...were, the showman in 42nd Street proclaimed, "the most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!" But for a couple of decades, the people who made Broadway-style musicals forgot about the comedy and went super-serious, telling song-stories about the murderous (Sweeney Todd), the morose (The Phantom of the Opera) and the miserable (Les Miz and dozens more). The Great White Way never sounded so gloomy...
...able to tell you that that's the end of it - that you should rejoice and go get an HD DVD player, and be done with it. A handful of movies from Universal and Warner are already for sale, including Swordfish, The Last Samurai, Million Dollar Baby, Phantom of the Opera, Apollo 13, GoodFellas, Doom and the aforementioned Serenity. More are on the way - by the end of June, once Paramount joins in, there should be about 40 titles in stores. Most titles slated for release are either full of action or artistically shot (or both), capitalizing on the high...
...You’ve Got Mail” with a pedophiliac twist. This is one superb film by all accounts that you won’t be able to shake off. After Haley (Ellen Page) and Jeff (Patrick Wilson, “The Phantom of the Opera”) meet in public, they quickly decide to go back to his apartment, but it is unclear who wants to go more, the man or the girl. At his apartment, they begin to drink hard liquor, flirt a lot, and then the chaos begins. In recent memory, there truly has not been...