Word: shafting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edward ... heard a great whooshing sound and in the same instant saw the elevator shaft fill with a sudden rocketlike uprush of flame and gas, a blazing cylinder made visible as the elevator door exploded outward, showering sparks and embers on all in the room, setting fires on the green felt of the pool tables, and hurling into the air blazing splinters and sticks, one of which pierced the breast of Katrina and instantly set her gown aflame...
...other components of the handbook seem like they were added mainly to fill space. For example, the names of every instructor or administrator who claims to be interested in "race issues" are listed. There is also a list of "audio-visual resources" which includes films such as "Shaft" and "Superfly." While blaxploitation movies may be an underappreciated genre, we do not think that they have much of a connection to campus race relations...
According to the OFA, Johnson is widely recognized as "the premier trombonist in jazz." His career has included stints with the Benny Carter and Count Basie Bands, and he worked on television and movie scores for such productions as "Shaft" and "The Mod Squad...
Finally, like a shaft of lightning or a sign from the heavens, the Harvard men's hockey team won--and won decisively...
...diverse material into a single book. He renders, as tellingly as ever, the magic of individual moments. A movie begins in a small theater: "The heavy purple curtains drew back and the orange side lamps dimmed and in the air above their heads, with a racheted whir, a shuddering shaft of light surprised a few winged bugs, suddenly turned into darting, looping stars." But to fill up the long stretches between inspirations, Updike relies on recitations of headlines and on reams of relatively undigested research: how to grow and pick asparagus, how to operate a suppository-making machine...