Word: rodes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When America woke up last Wednesday morning, it was to strangers they had briefly met, and hardly got to know, but who would now be running Congress. These strangers rode to victory on a shoeshine and a smile and a sample case full of miracle cures. They gave few specifics, but never mind. Voters were convinced that their generic bromides looked better than what the Democrats . had been peddling. Of those who uprooted hardy Democratic perennials, few were more unlikely than Texas Congressman-elect Steve Stockman and Tennessee Senator-elect Bill Frist...
Last season the Dartmouth game was the only Harvard game I missed. I rode in a car 20 hours to see the team get squashed by William and Mary. I drove through the New York plains for a total of ten hours to see the team get smashed in hail and rain by Cornell. But I refused to drag my ass from North House to Hanover to watch our gridders play the three-time Ivy League champion behemoths from the north...
Alice Stone's first feature-length documentary "She Lives to Ride" is a compendium of portraits of women who ride motorcycles, interspersed with archival footage of women who rode hot wheels in America's past. Stone reiterates in interviews that her main goal for this film was to show images of empowered women. She is entirely successful, and in addition she manages to take a political stance without being heavy-handed. The director skillfully chips away at the monolithic image of the female biker that constructs women bikers as crass, ugly, leather-clad renegade dykes, by portraying five different women...
...only to live but also in order to challenge societal constructs of femininity. The great thing about Dot (besides the lipstick holder attached to her bike's rearview mirror) is that she is completely unaware of her own place in the annals of feminist history, even though she rode a bike long before our mamas were born. "I was a woman in a man's world", she muses nonchalantly from her chaise lounge. She lives in a retirement community, entirely outside the scope of mainstream feminism, and if she were to be asked about her take on gender issues...
...delegations drove over to the Presidential Palace. Carter and Nunn went in one car, and Powell rode with Cedras, straddling a pile of rifle grenades. And then came the final standoff. Jonassaint convened the Cabinet, and the agreement was on the table. Said Nunn: "It became very apparent that General Cedras was not going to ever say, 'I agree.' " Then Carter dramatically reached out and signed the agreement himself. Would the Haitians respond? Who among them would sign...