Word: purrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bride, is all domestic bustle, dark thoughts held at bay by her many tasks -- remaking her awful old wedding dress for her daughter, considering the canapes for the reception. Mrs. Monro (Joan Plowright), the mother of the groom, sleeps a lot, awakening to express in a rumbly purr her dismay with just about everything...
...turn out cement and lumber products. Paul Denton, 51, a refugee from the Baltimore & Ohio in Baltimore, Maryland, is president, commanding a fleet of 200 cars over 67 miles of track. From a tiny office in the quaint 1902 depot in Union Bridge, he listens to the comforting purr of his six locomotives prowling in the valley at 25 m.p.h. Small potatoes in the big picture. But last year the line grossed $2.3 million and made a gratifying $302,000. And Denton echoes the new call of railmen from top to bottom. "I have three concerns," he says. "The customer...
...follow the byzantine and brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes in an ambiguous, secular...
...good. Cruise, like Robert Redford two decades ago, is a Hollywood hunk who has played it smart by playing smart guys: young men with cute brain waves who can make intelligence and idealism sexy. He and the pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than...
...jazz itself much popular support. As if realizing this and trying to reach some sort of no-sweat accommodation, Gillespie turned up the volume on his personality. His goatee, heavy-black-frame specs and frequent beret became prototypical hepcat mufti. His voice, which sounded like a thunderclap wanting to purr, could be heard on cool novelties like Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. His cheeks expanded so far past normal size when he played his horn that he looked, on the bandstand, as if he were on exhibit in an aquarium...