Word: stated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This past weekend was really good for the [team's] gelling and for really pulling some things together," Johnson said. "We were very excited about beating Ohio State...
Under her tutelage, the Hawks have earned victories over Sacred Heart, Central Connecticut State and Long Island. The Hawks escaped with a 57-54 win over Sacred Heart, a much closer game than Harvard's 33-point blowout of the same opponent...
...Happiness has always been the secret of the blues. "What made the real blues singers so great," said blues great Big Joe Williams, "is that they were able to state all the problems they had; but at the same time, they were standing outside of them and could look at them. And in that way, they had them beat. Many young singers today are trying to get inside the blues, forgetting that those older singers used the blues to get outside their troubles...
...Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half-size recreation stands over the Paris hotel); or look out another and see Egyptian pyramids at the Luxor or the Chrysler and Empire State Building at New York, New York? It's a substitution for culture--a fantasy of epic proportions stuck in the middle of a desert. Las Vegas is the greatest expression of our culture's current artistic sensibility (or lack...