Word: rumorings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BEST DIRTY LAUNDRY internalmemos.com This latest project from Philip Kaplan, the man who brought us the profanely named rumor mill F_____dCompany.com bills itself as the Internet's largest collection of corporate memos and other internal communications. A great idea, simply executed--so long as you can bypass the dull stuff and ferret out the juicy tidbits (like a list of 467 employee salaries at Terra Lycos). Kaplan says he just posts whatever people send him; some memos (the ones he thinks will have wide appeal) are free, whereas others are accessible only to subscribers paying $45 a month...
...audience favorite. In an era where films were dull and lifeless it lived and breathed, and the swooping and panning camera reflected the director’s intoxication with the possibilities of the medium. Soon all eyes were on Anderson. How would he follow up such a huge success? Rumor had it that Anderson wanted to try his hand at a quick 90-minute comedy. Instead, he created perhaps one of the greatest pieces of art in the last 20 years—Magnolia, a film that weaves a beautiful tableau of the ups and downs of human existence...
...statistics bureau...Officially, and with the knowledge and permission of the Nazi overseers, Rosenfeld recorded such matters as death, food rations, decrees from the ghetto leadership, and reports from the Jewish police; unofficially, and certainly without authorization, Rosenfeld also kept careful notes on daily life....He records the rumors that sweep the community - including, ominously, on concerning the extermination in a kind of bathhouse of hundreds of Jews at a time. The rumor was true: Rosenfeld died at Auschwitz in 1944, leaving this extraordinary testimonial. A singular contribution to the literature and history of the Shoah...
This sort of hands-on anarchy is perhaps the closest thing Gomez have to a “signature sound.” They have always self-produced their albums, a fact which Gray says has contributed to their independence of record company whims and standards. Rumor has it that the sessions for Liquid Skin saw them singing through toilet rolls as well as underwater, while the album take of “Get Miles” is the second time they ever attempted the song, after the first take had to be abandoned when a microphone fell...
...media coverage did little to alleviate massive confusion, said Travis G. Good ’04, a Crimson executive, who was listening to the radio but was not sure whether to believe a rumor about a bomb exploding at the White House...