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...Thanks for the soupcon of sarcasm, fella. But look at the alternative. Look at the fiction writers who are making it--they stink! Well, some of'em are all right. But they're not great! Where are the Faulkners of our generation? Smothered by mediocrity...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Down On Law | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...place to note that Fresno is a spoof. In a prime-time soap- opera era of evil look-alikes, characters miraculously resurrected from the dead, and whole seasons that turn out to be dreams, it is hard to tell the parody from the real goods. Fresno tries to toss stink bombs at a genre that is probably impervious to anything short of nuclear annihilation. What's more, it does so in a format virtually unheard of on TV: a comedy mini-series. No multiparter has ever managed to sustain laughs for five consecutive nights. On purpose anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Raisin in the Fun: Fresno | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...Armani works subtle and cunning variations on the classic tux ($1,395), and Issey Miyake strikes off into fresh territory with an easy-fitting model with no lapels ($1,000), but tradition holds sway in tuxedo design. "You want to know what I think about those colored things? They stink," says Sy Max, owner of Baldwin Formals in Manhattan. "Our tuxes are for people not buying for fads," comments Jack R. McDonald of the highly regarded Oxxford Clothes in Chicago, whose basic silk model runs about $1,300. "Our primary market is the power structure of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Tie Still Required | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...AUDIENCE was not allowed outside during intermission, probably to prevent any last minute assault by suicide stink-bomb squads. Most of the audience poured out into the Wang Center's stuffy lobby, sipping over-priced Coca Colas and complaining about the protesters...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Art for Art's Sake | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Twenty minutes later, surveying the massacred patch of flowers, he hits me with the inevitable line: "You go to HARVARD and you don't know the difference between goober weeds and stink weeds?!!! Gawwwwdamn...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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