Word: pocketed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expected the wooden Gore to outshine the kinetic Kemp, but he did it again last Tuesday, when both men spoke to a group of Jewish leaders in New York. Kemp's pandering was so obvious that Gore, who had a partisan refutation in his pocket, instead delivered a statesmanlike talk boldly confirming the Administration's frustration with the anti-Palestinian policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sat glumly only five feet away. The next crucial confrontation will come in the vice-presidential debate next month...
...where exactly does this terse, abbreviated e-mail language originate? Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is replete with TLAs (three letter acronyms) and reductive sound-bite talk and one may inevitably spot CS 50 students chuckling in the computer lab while Unix illiterates struggle with the fluorescent pink HASCS pocket dictionary. Technology is the wave of the future, they seem to say, either ride it, or get dunked...
...more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
...nonsense father, lackadaisical childhood in Jamestown, New York: looking at birds and painting pictures. Since he lacked any formal ornithological training, Peterson brought to his project a refreshing dose of common sense. People could not lug folios of Audubon reproductions to where the birds were; Peterson made his guide pocket-size. He also devised what remains the easiest-to-use method of bird identification. "I grouped birds that look alike and therefore might be mistaken for each other, instead of grouping them by species," he remembered years later. "I made my paintings schematic and two-dimensional, and I drew little...
...profits for writing Earthquake. The experience probably explains why Bobby Bantz, LoddStone's second in command, is a fulsome repository of foul behavior and slippery business practices. Among them is the willfully complicated gross-and-net game that fattens those on top and leaves naive scriptwriters out of pocket. Puzo takes his vendetta to comic climax when a novelist turned LoddStone hack has to kill himself to get his money. That he sets aside his multiple suicide notes for a rewrite is the sort of black-humor icing that tops off much of this highly anecdotal read...