Word: slips
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Five months before Sam was born, Lori went to the state bureau of child care in St. Louis and studied its records for several local day-care centers. She chose one just a few moments from her job, so she could slip over and nurse her baby at lunchtime. It cost $152 a week. Doris would go to the center in the afternoons and stay for hours. And very soon she had seen enough. "The room was too small and was crammed with cribs," she recalls. "The workers sneezed into their hands and then wouldn't wash them...
...never loses himself when he makes a slip," says CS 50 student Samuel Klein...
...studios salivating. The leading contenders appear to be Fox and Disney, although Steven Spielberg hopes he can prevail upon his old friend Lucas--the two made the Indiana Jones movies together--to give a big bang to Spielberg's new company, DreamWorks. Sources close to Lucas doubt he'll slip his babies into the untested DreamWorks distribution pipeline. A Fox executive adds that Lucas has a keen sense of competition with Spielberg and is eager for the original Star Wars to pass Jurassic Park at the box office. (The score in the U.S. is Star Wars, $322 million; Jurassic Park...
...depth and inner turmoil of their elder colleagues. Honey hops into and through the production with an acebandaged ankle, a successful addition to the original script (Albee never calls for her injury), be it an intentional move by the director, George O'Keefe, or a lucky unintentional slip-and-fall by Jesson herself. Perhaps portraying a ditz is difficult, but Jesson's performance, while adequate, leans toward the uninspired. Hubby Souza exudes the young preppiness of a just-out-of-school teacher and athlete, with more interest in controlling the department than in actually imbuing the love of biology into...
Once, after witnessing a teenager riding precariously between two subway cars, another passenger turned to me and remarked sourly: "You know, if he falls, they'll have to stop the train." Sure, I thought, the first thing on my mind after seeing this kid slip and fall to a violent death would be: Will I make it home in time to see Jeopardy...