Word: plate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this summer, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater decides to end their eclectic season with one of Bill's more controversial works, "The Taming of the Shrew." But the big question remains: is this production yet another bland, unadventurous side dish on the already-full plate of generic Shakespearean theater, or does it break through the gelatin mold as the summer's most delectable new entree...
...talks are scheduled and none are planned to break the deadlock in the strike that is crippling UPS. TIME's Jef McAllister says President Clinton, stung by flak he took for intervening in the baseball strike two-and-a-half years back, won't be stepping up to this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction of usual deliveries...
...hours before sundown, the wagon train made camp. I had walked only a few miles that day, but I was parched and exhausted. A meal was served. I sat in the dirt and devoured a plate of meat loaf, while around me devout believers watered horses, repaired bent wagon wheels, fed bottles to crying infants. In just a few days, to quote their ancestors, they would cross the mountains and be "safe in Zion." I could not help wishing them well. In their epic trek across Smith's American Eden, they have lost more paradises than they've found...
...that happens in the absence of plate tectonics is not well understood," admits Robert Strom, a University of Arizona planetary scientist. To NASA Goddard scientist Jim Garvin, the finding suggests that a geology significantly more complex than scientists had expected was at work on Mars. "It's not the easiest rock to make," he says, "and that alone is very exciting...
...sort of a New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils of state as spiritual consultant to the President. He is played with a nice shiftiness--you really wouldn't want to trust this guy with a church-collection plate--by Matthew McConaughey. Yet director Robert Zemeckis lets him carry the movie's message. That is to say, Joss, not Ellie--bless her sternly rational soul--happens to be right; there is, just as he has so tiresomely predicted, a metaphysical dimension to deep space...