Word: sharked
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...have been rereading Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night," an awful book in many ways, but with an interesting haunted quality: Nicole Diver's insanity darkens the pages like a cloud passing overhead, or like the rumor of a shark in summer waters...
...could get ugly. In fact, it already has. Last fall during a congressional fight over the right to sue HMOs, the managed-care industry broadcast TV commercials showing a shark feeding as an announcer said archly, "America's richest trial lawyers are circling--and your health plan is the bait." The trial lawyers, for their part, recently targeted Senator Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican, for sponsoring a bill that would make it harder to sue asbestos manufacturers. Their ad featured a Montana woman walking in a graveyard and accusing Burns of "standing up for the people that made me sick...
...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...
Speedo's Fastskin suit mimics a shark's dermal denticles, V-shaped ridges that lessen drag by directing water flow away from the body. Adidas' version uses a compression Lycra that, the company claims, minimizes muscle vibration. Swimming's international governing body has ruled the suits do not enhance performance, and they can be worn at the Olympics. Tom Malchow, for one, will be wearing one. The 1996 Olympic silver medalist smashed the world record in the 200-m butterfly in one of the suits earlier this month. No wonder USA Swimming's Charlie Snyder predicts "a massive dressing room...
...fervent nonswimmers like me, Steven Spielberg's JAWS is a cinematic manifesto. We identify with Roy Scheider's hydrophobic police chief--mocked for his fear of water until that hungry shark shows up. This summer marks Jaws' 25th anniversary, and as a tribute to the No. 1 nonswimmer's film of all time, a list follows of the other Top 24 films living up to the motto "Don't go in the water." Seeing movie stars drown is especially comforting between June and August, the season of peer pressure, when the swimming class harangues the rest of us with nonsense...