Search Details

Word: sketches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Another product sketch, this time for "Sculptionary," (a variation on the game "Pictionary") succeeds mainly because of its quick-shifting camera shots, its high-energy acting and the brevity of the clip itself...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Sickness with a Cure | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

This brings us to Video Sickness's other main problem: clips that are not allowed to end before they have, in the words of one of my favorite professors, thoroughly tenderized the proverbial dead horse. The longest sketch, one about "drinking and dating," starts off on a weak premise-- a twist on studies of the effects of drinking and driving--and actually becomes less humorous as it drags...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Sickness with a Cure | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...even if this is an accurate sketch of the campus situation, it does not absolve the council of responsibility of its decision. As a body which in some ways sets the moral tone for student debate on controversial issues, it is the council's obligation to rise above the petty prejudices some individual constituents may harbor...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Still Time for a Just Vote | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

STORIES by Oleg Yermakov (Znamya, No. 3, 1989). Two short stories by a 28- year-old veteran of the Afghan conflict sketch a vivid and unromanticized picture of war that is reminiscent of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a book about American G.I.s in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Sampler | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale about New York City rich kids. But two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's crafty sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 3, 1989 | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | Next