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...annual tournament for Larry’s research department at the World Bank, held at Breton Woods Recreation Center. Lined up on one side was the intellectual embodiment of the Washington Consensus: Larry Summers and his sidekick Lance Pritchett (now at the Kennedy School) and on the other side was the Empathetic Soft Left, represented by me and my son. In contrast to the rapidly acquired intellectual dominance of the Washington Consensus, the Empathetic Left held out through a long, bitterly fought match, ultimately, as in the real world of the nineties, to succumb to the sharper positioning, more aggressive...
Fans who had traveled in the rain and cold to see their weary-voiced troubadour and his new sidekick were enthusiastic at further collaboration. There was a buzz about the first such pairing in Kottke’s career. “I came all the way from Washington state to visit my friend at Harvard and see the show. The way the music hits you its like he’s having a party on the guitar. All I can say is whew, what a p-a-r-t-y,” said one fan, Sarah Whippet, after...
...novel next year.) Running against the Hollywood tradition of sugar-coating every pill, Columbus is eager to let you know that your children may be very afraid. A presumably dead cat is hung in a Hogwarts hallway; Hogwarts students are frozen stiff ("petrified") by a monster; Harry and his sidekick Ron Weasley are attacked with surprising violence by a giant Whomping Willow after they crash-land a flying car in its gnarled branches. Later, they are chased through the Forbidden Forest by an army of giant spiders. The Mandrake plants - whose deadly screams require Herbology students to wear earmuffs - have...
...first time you meet a robot can be pretty disappointing. Hollywood has taught us what to expect: a trusty sidekick like R2-D2, a gleaming robo-maid like The Jetsons' Rosey or a cyberassassin like the Terminator. The reality is very different: most robots are either mindless factory drones or blue-sky academic projects that cost a fortune, break down a lot and don't do very much. Most of them don't even have death rays...
...motorcade pulls up and Secret Service agents fan out, the children of Wamili, a village of mud and grass huts in the north of Ghana, break into song. The tribal chief welcomes Bono, leader of the rock band U2, and his traveling sidekick, Paul O'Neill, the buttoned-down U.S. Treasury secretary. Each is presented a traditional robes and a matching floppy hat. Bono's fits nicely. O'Neill's seems several sizes too small. The chief looks apologetically at the Treasury secretary and says, "I think one of you got a bigger one." To which Bono replies with...