Word: stanley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...robotic--Cruise likes to laugh, and he laughs a lot--but he does seem to be remarkably free of the kind of negative emotions that tend to plague mere mortals. And it is playing mere mortals that seems to give him the hardest time. In Eyes Wide Shut, where Stanley Kubrick put a camera on his face to capture inner turmoil, Cruise appears uneasy rather than tormented. He seems most comfortable, onscreen and off, when he is taking action. He describes himself as a pragmatist. He is, above all, organized. "I've always admired the guys who schedule their lives...
Finally, to squeeze more income out of your short-term assets, consider my nominee for America's most underrated investment: preferred shares of closed-end municipal-bond funds. The dividends on these shares, available from firms such as Nuveen, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, are generally exempt from federal income tax and some states' income tax as well. For more details, go to etfconnect.com and under MULTIFUND SEARCH, choose PREFERREDS and select FIXED INCOME--MUNICIPAL...
...DIED. STANLEY LLOYD GREIGG, 71, former Iowa Congressman who filed the criminal complaint that sparked the Watergate investigation; of a heart attack; in Roanoke, Va. As then deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Greigg was called in by Washington police on June 17, 1972, to view a lineup of the five Watergate burglars...
While his new audience may be a tad precious, Stanley is anything but. Growing up in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia in the 1930s, he learned the banjo from his mother while his brother Carter took guitar lessons from the mailman. The Stanley Brothers were naturals, and soon they were performing live out of a Bristol, Va., radio station and recording for Columbia. At one point, they were the biggest act in Appalachia not named Bill Monroe...
Their popularity belied the fact that the Stanley Brothers were a couple of dark-minded dudes. "I'm the real man of constant sorrow," says Ralph quietly, referring to the O Brother track sung by Dan Tyminski. "Truly, I've been singing that song for almost 60 years." In a typical Stanley Brothers song, good battles evil, loses and sometimes gets to heaven. Carter died of cancer in 1966, but Ralph still sings his version of the American Gothic. On Ralph Stanley, his first album for T Bone Burnett's DMZ Records, Ralph sings a tune called Mathie Grove...