Word: storm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Standing on the sidelines through the debate is the real Gina Grant. Despite an occasional press release, the girl has stood apart from the storm, watching her self-proclaimed defenders on campus and in the media protest against the reticent Harvard administration. With both Grant and Harvard remaining mute, both sides are left to rely on rumor and second- hand sources to assess the case. And we find debaters eliciting the image of Gina Grant that most agrees with their gut prejudices about the American judicial system...
Predicting political trends is like predicting the stock market: the most common mistake is assuming that current trends will continue. Therefore, I boldly risk the opposite prediction: the populist, anti-Washington fire storm is about to fade. Nurtured on complaints and resentments that were amorphous at best, it will be sated by "solutions" that are equally amorphous or symbolic. The alleged causes of populist anger will not disappear: the budget will remain unbalanced; lifetime professional politicians will continue to run the country. But, like a summer squall, the populist storm will pass. Or rather, like a small child's crying...
JAMES RODDA BEGAN TO HAVE SECOND thoughts about his decision to ride out the storms when his 5-ft. 4-in. wife Gloria opened their front door and met a 5-ft. wall of water. It was 8 p.m. on Friday, March 10, in Mission Fields, just outside Carmel; the lights were out, the phones were down, and there was no one left in the neighborhood to hear them screaming. California was in the middle of its second "100-year storm" in three months, and the Carmel Valley was in for a very bad night...
Paltry in the two areas movies of this genre can usually muster up a storm, the movie caves in to cool--the punk's lair is the underground of an amusement park replete with maniacal roller-coaster rides with all those innocent kiddy-overtones that work pretty well in horror scenes. But in a movie which fails to provide the groundwork for such a fantastical image, the kiddie rides comes off as a last-ditch attempt to revive a movie that is already D.O.A...
...weather today: sunny and cold, with highs in the forties. Drizzles by midafternoon. Chances of rain, sixty percent. Getting colder tonight, with lows in the twenties. Rain turning into snow, with chances of a storm after midnight...