Word: sherlocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sometimes hilarious but curiously sweet nonetheless. Peterman sells interesting and fairly good-quality stuff (though he lately got caught in a crunch of high inventory, debt and cash-flow problems). The danger, of course, is that you may get the thing in the mail and try it on (a Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve Cliquot...") and find you look absolutely ridiculous in it. I always thought it would be risky to go out in the classic horseman's duster that...
...more ethereal effects of movement and stage lighting; their defiance of gravity was to popular theater what the computer generation of dinosaurs and space oddities is to movies today. Arthur Conan Doyle was the son of a fairy painter, Charles Altamont Doyle, who died mad, but the creator of Sherlock Holmes was so gullible himself that as late as 1917 he defended some fake photos of fairies made by an enterprising pair of teenage English schoolgirls. You'd almost suppose that the national emblem of England was neither the lion nor the unicorn nor even John Bull, but the fairy...
...Linda Tripp is a woman to whom Kenneth Starris deeply indebted. She transformed him fromInspector Clouseau to Sherlock Holmes," Franksaid...
...JERRY SHERLOCK, director, New York Film Academy: "Pret-a-Porter [1994; 4], because they put Marcello Mastroianni, a fine actor, in that piece...
...nine Richardson cousins sat around the living room, one of the brothers would read aloud from a Sherlock Holmes novel, a longtime tradition at the cabin...