Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...developing Asia suffered from an acute, potentially lethal but short-lived fever, Japan suffers from a slow, wasting disease, the result not of the nation's vices but of its virtues. While there are many things wrong with Japan, the immediate problem is excessive thrift: Japanese households simply save more than the country's businesses can be persuaded to invest, even at a zero interest rate...
...short, Asia will probably not have the same problems over the next two years that it had over the past two, but it is at considerable risk of having different problems. It ain't over until the sumo wrestler sings...
John is a short, wiry man of 47, with a red beard and red hair and fierce china-blue eyes. His father took him out of school when he was 14 to apprentice him to a butcher. He is self-educated, and he reads all the time when he's not drinking or down the shaft. His literary range is wider than that of most educated Americans I've met, and he talks beautifully. His father was a Stalinist union organizer, and though John is no longer a communist--few miners are; they're too solitary and anarchic by temperament...
...work in England for a fraction of what we pay here. While the rest of us poor bastards are able to get 16 weeks of filming for $70 million with a $20 million star, Stanley could get 45 weeks of shooting for $65 million." In short, says Pollack, "he ensured himself the luxury of trying to work out something that's as complicated emotionally as this film...
Some people should probably skip South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the new feature based on the Comedy Central cartoon series. A short list would include celebrities teased in the movie: the Baldwin brothers (they are killed en masse by the Royal Canadian Air Force); Conan O'Brien (he commits suicide by jumping from the GE Building); Winona Ryder (she performs an unusual exercise with Ping-Pong balls); Bill Gates (he is shot dead because Windows 98 isn't fast enough); Saddam Hussein (he has a gay affair with Satan and toys shamelessly with the Horned One's affections); Barbra Streisand...