Word: polarizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...painted it in those final lines of Dover Beach (How could it?), but it often can feel that bleak--minus joy, love, light, certitude, peace and help for pain. As yet, no industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that hardly seems the cure for the fearfulness or the hollow detachment of much of modern life...
Unseasonably warm weather, prompted by the heightened greenhouse effect underway, persists into the new year. The polar ice caps begin to melt, flooding Canada and parts of downtown Cambridge. Harvard Facilities Maintenance men work 'round the clock to keep paths to the libraries and Mem Hall passable. Reading Period, cancerlike, festers into exam period. Students refuse to take exams for the first three days until their biological clocks have completed the full two-week cycle...
...private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some for himself. The whole place suits the style of the man who, on once being asked what MCI stood for, said, "Money coming...
America, in all its promise and excess, has long intoxicated the French. Truffaut's achievement was to reconcile, with a uniquely canny buoyancy, the polar tugs of these two cultures. Six of the 21 features he directed were based on works by American writers, from Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black) to Henry James (The Green Room), yet they were unmistakably French in atmosphere and obsessions. In Truffaut's pantheon of directors, Hitchcock rubbed shoulders with Jean Renoir, and his own films sizzled with the tension between Hitchcock's manipulative elegance and Renoir's sharp-eyed...
...polar climes of North House having proven too chilly for them, 88 plastic penguins yesterday took the shuttle bus south to the Yard...