Word: powdering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, when he insists that Milosevic bears most, but by no means all, of the blame. The Serb leader may have summoned the nationalist genie, but it was a spirit just waiting to be uncorked from its tightly capped bottle. Throughout a 74-year existence, Yugoslavia has been a powder keg of ethnic, national and religious hatreds that go back for centuries. The country that is now vanishing was an artificial creation of conflicting cultures, patched together in the wake of two world wars. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Slavs were held in check only by strongman Josip Broz...
...audience, is the least of the lot: a wan drama, with few aerial thrills, that puts Jules Verne (Michel Piccoli) into the time machine of his friend H.G. Wells (Jeremy Irons), with help from a friendly baggage handler (Gerard Depardieu). In the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, a powder-puff piece of surreal estate inspired by Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, reposes a fabulous Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws nearly as long as Barbra Streisand's in The Prince of Tides. Kids love teasing the reptile; take them...
...crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income tax problem by turning to a trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole set is a highway), crime (involving, naturally, suitcases of white powder) and moviemaking. Of these, Korder presents the cinema as the most corrupt; it takes an impromptu murder to get the antihero really launched as a mogul...
Sally: And the ladies' powder room. A lascivious red. Yum. Condom purchases low here, too. But you can check your lipstick in the mirror over the sinks and subtly inspect your butt for those unseemly panty lines in the vertical mirror behind you with just a discreet toss of the head. How convenient!Middle...
This is a powder keg of momentous proportions. In Quincy House, where the cheer and devotion of the dining hall staff already draw eager luncheoners from afar, and where the puny eating space barely accommodates the residents of this, the largest undergraduate house, we look upon your new restrictions as, frankly, almost a declaration of war. I am sure the inhabitants of Lowell share our peril...