Word: room
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their first week, the Vancouver Olympic Games looked well on their way to a gold medal in winter calamity--tragedy on the luge track, slush on the downhill course at Whistler and drenching rain on Cypress Mountain that eventually washed away the standing-room spectator zone, costing organizers around $1.4 million in refunded ticket sales. The signature snafu may be this: the Canadians couldn't make ice. A men's speed-skating final had to be halted for more than an hour because two ice-resurfacing machines were in various degrees of breakdown--sort of like the Games themselves. Still...
...like most people, you're way too smart for advertising. You flip right past newspaper ads, never click on ads online and leave the room during TV commercials...
Nonetheless, I played along when Kudrow had Ancestry.com look up my family history. I found out through the 1930 Census that my father's father's parents paid $45 a month for a one-room New York City apartment for six people and they were the only ones on the block without a radio. My great-grandmother, when asked what country she grew up in, wrote "Poland," crossed it out and then wrote "Austria." These are countries that don't even border each other. I come from stupid people. You know how I know that? Because I had to look...
...behind the Jan. 20 murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top official in the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The suspects, believed to be members of a hit squad, entered the emirate using fake European passports and were captured in surveillance footage following al-Mabhouh to his hotel room disguised in wigs and tennis clothing. Hamas has accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of orchestrating the assassination. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman refused to directly comment on the matter, explaining that when it comes to security issues, "Israel never responds, never confirms and never denies. There is no reason for Israel...
...more or less straightforward filming of the interrogation scenes with the hallucinogenic tragic realism of Teddy's nightmares. At Dachau, corpses stir and papers flutter; with his wife, the camera executes a 360 around the couple as Dolores dissolves in Teddy's embrace, her ashes swirling around the room. A grieving man's conversation with his dearly departed has become a peculiar subtheme in a half-dozen recent movies, from Up last summer to Edge of Darkness a few weeks ago, and its popularity probably should end soon. But the trope makes sense here, given Teddy's agitation. Dolores...