Word: stalk
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...reserves to ensure wealth for generations. Yet try telling that to impoverished villagers in the country's Niger Delta region, where Royal Dutch Shell has drilled for nearly 50 years. "Look at this?the crops are stunted, the water is polluted," rails Bari-Ara Kpalap, grabbing a wilted stalk of cassava as he stands ankle-deep in oily water. For Kpalap, a local activist, there is one obvious culprit: "A great part of our problems have been caused by Shell...
...that faux alcoholic’s plan and making her take the next bus back to “rehab.” (She didn’t even get to say goodbye to Kirsten…tsk tsk. Maybe she’ll send a “Stalk you again soon” card.) Ryan’s conflict with that surfer from the bad side of the tracks—Stalin or Voldemort or whatever her name is—ended when Ryan managed to, as Sandy paternalistically put it, “use brains instead...
...Gwang Ki kneels in the yellow stubble of his newly harvested rice field and lovingly picks up a stray stalk of rice. Every day since he was a young boy, Yuk, now 53, has come to this paddy in Jangsu province, South Korea, to plant, to tend the fragile seedlings and to bring in the crops. Yuk's family has tilled this tiny plot for 400 years, and while it's increasingly difficult to earn a living from the land, Yuk would be happy knowing his family could go on with the work for 400 more. "The purpose of farming...
...Their unfaithful tryst is interrupted by a mugger who beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda; the mugger is actually an overtly villainous and obnoxiously French criminal, Phillippe Laroche (Vincent Cassell) who, with the help of sidekick Dexter (Xzibit of “Pimp My Ride”), proceeds to stalk Charles and demand high blackmail payments; Charles cannot go to the police because Lucinda refuses to make a statement of a her rape; Charles’s life spirals increasingly out of control. Plus, his daughter has diabetes. Yes, they go there.The fault largely lies in Stuart Beattie?...
...watch “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” on a triple-bill with “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Fantastic Four.” I would rather read Dr. Laura for five hours and then be whipped with a wet stalk of sugar cane by Lindsay Lohan after a five-day cabbage-only diet. If Hollywood bigwigs want to continue whining about decreasing box-office receipts, maybe they should wait to see if the trend continues after trying a release strategy that doesn’t involve throwing elephant turds...