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...leading opposition candidate, Winnie Byanyima has nothing but derision for her ex-lover. "Museveni has copied all our ideas because he has none of his own," she proclaims. "Let's send Museveni back to his cattle farm for a long rest!" There is a lot of mud to sling at Museveni, even without mentioning sex (everyone knows about the Winnie affair, but no one would dare make it a political issue). Uganda's level of corruption is one of the highest on a continent not known for aboveboard dealings. Museveni's expensive military adventurism in neighboring Congo has not been...
After the Clintons? embrace of Hollywood, movies are in for a rougher time. Bill Clinton may have endorsed such gritty films as ?Sling Blade? and ?Dead Man Walking,? but Bush has different tastes. A clue? His favorite book and TV movie of all time is ?Lonesome Dove.? Consequently we will no longer see White House events attended by a procession of faces - Streisand, Spielberg, Cruise and Hanks - familiar from ?Entertainment Tonight...
...became clear on Saturday that while B.C. has by far the more polish and experience, the Crimson has just as much raw talent on the ice. Harvard cannot pass with precision and sling the puck around the ice like B.C. can, but it was also clear that the Crimson can skate with, and certainly outmuscle, the mighty Eagles...
...remember talking to him about the movie Sling Blade and Billy Bob Thornton, whom he knew from Arkansas. He said to me there are two guys who understand this movie--him and Howell Raines [Alabama-born, editorial-page editor of the New York Times], who was blasting him all the time. And I called Howell Raines, and he said that yes, he did love the movie. So the critic in Clinton, even though he's getting pummeled every day, still had enough savvy to understand Raines' taste, and how this film related to Southerners. He's the most intelligent person...
...cook who has been burned and another plays a man who carries a bunch of heavy stuff but refuses his co-worker's help. "That's O.K., I've got it," he says--right before tripping down a hill. (That's when we learned how to construct a sling...