Word: react
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...metafictionally begging you to love its star in its first three minutes. Make no mistake, Bette loves its lead, all too well. It indulges her with Lucy-esque slapstick (she wrestles an exercise machine! She bashes a block of frozen waffles!). It surrounds her with weak characters who merely react to her. It makes TV jokes ("Pretty soon I'll have my own series, and then I might just as well kill myself") that tell us how lucky we are that such a big star is visiting that little box in our humble living rooms...
Children may also react negatively if the room remains but has been stripped of their presence. Two years after Dena Cowan Klapperich, 37, a clinical psychologist in Lindenhurst, Ill., had left home to live with her boyfriend, her mother, U.C. Berkeley psychologist Carolyn Cowan, converted Dena's old room to an office. "The first time she came over after that, she couldn't walk in there," Cowan recalls...
...couldn't have anticipated the shock of this," said Bernard Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel. "We're looking internally, trying to educate ourselves and sort out the conflicting data we are getting. We don't want to react without thinking...
...into the air, then passed off to Scott, who flicked the ball towards the net. The shot was blocked by a Cornell defender, but sophomore forward Philomena Gambale secured the rebound and pushed the ball straight into the left corner of the net before Cornell keeper Maureen Sullivan could react. It was Gambale's team-leading seventh goal of the season...
Instantaneously, everyone in the room turned their heads to see how Faiman would react. "I was so amused at his reaction because after looking at that photo for so long, it is my favorite," she says. "It was fun, almost, to explain the natural process of a Japanese woman's body when she has a large, half-American baby...