Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversial decision which leaves a number of post-centenarians out in the cold. A Florida woman who celebrates her 121st birthday tomorrow was nixed because she only had social security records to prove her age. Don't even ask about the 135-year-old Lebanese man. It's settled; Guinness has decreed it. But remember, Marie-Louise: age is only a number...
What most people don't realize is that it almost never happens. In a particularly bad year, as many as 100 people may be attacked by sharks. Of those attacks, a small minority--15% at most--prove fatal. Far more people are killed by bees, poisonous snakes and elephants, as well as bathtub falls and lightning strikes. It's much more dangerous to drive to the beach than to venture into the water once you get there...
...their domestic fishing fleets, subsidizing everything from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes, is as politically intractable as it is intellectually simple: there is just too much fishing power chasing too few fish...
Stallone can worry about that and so many other things; he's a mess of anxieties. "I have an inability to feel validated," he confesses. "There's a persistent hunger, which is disconcerting and sometimes debilitating. You ask yourself when can you sit back and not have anything to prove? But I do have something to prove." Daylight hardly prepared him for the promise and threat of Cop Land. "I didn't know if I had developed enough bad habits to not work with good actors again," he says. "If you don't deliver, they can't morph good acting...
...witches. They also joke about kidnapping Bingo's sister so Goose can have sex with her. Enter Loraine (Jordanna Brodsky), Tom-Tom's petite and insane lover who has both men so wrapped around her fingers that they let her put pins into their voodoo dolls' arms to prove their manliness to her. Later, after suspecting them of stealing her jewels, Loraine seduces Goose in front of Tom-Tom, who pretends not to care. As if things weren't bizarre enough, Lulu (Jennifer Neale), Bingo's sister whom Goose apparently did kidnap, walks out of the closet, gives a powerful...