Word: robes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tyson's next," Foreman bellowed, arms outstretched, to the crowd. Every old man in the dim arena choked at the visage in the crimson robe -- a middle- aged Rocky in their midst. Around the stands signs shot up, echoing TYSON'S NEXT. In the dressing room Foreman chortled, "Cooper tried to run, but the ring was too small. They're all thinking, 'What's George going...
...gone gay all of a sudden!" yelled Cary Grant, dressed in a frilly robe, as he met a nosy visitor in the comedy Bringing Up Baby. Perhaps he wasn't trying to be funny. A new book on Grant insists that he was bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...
...staying at a very stylish hotel in New York City where I knew they always had a bathrobe in the closet, so I left mine at home. I had called room service for coffee, then discovered there was no robe. When the coffee came, I took a sheet off the bed and wrapped it around myself toga style to answer the door. I can imagine what the waiter thought. I can just see him going back to the kitchen and saying, "You'll never guess what I saw in Room...
...Davis was middle class, wasn't he?" Tyson muses idly, referring to another Olympian on Spinks' team. "Davis was a real good boxer. You can come from a middle-class background and be a real good boxer. But you have to know struggle to be the champ." Without socks, robe or orchestra, wearing headgear as spare as a World War I aviator's, Tyson hurries out to demonstrate his point against an unsteady corps of clay pigeons with perfect names like Michael ("the Bounty") Hunter and Rufus ("Hurricane") Hadley. The slippery leather thuds reverberate through the hall...
Christ came gently with a robe and crown...