Word: tallness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small, balding man with dark, deep-set eyes, Tarkanian strikes a strong contrast with his tall, predominantly black charges. But his sense of easy authority over the team is equally marked. Says Lonnie Wright, a UNLV forward in the early 1970s: "Coach Tarkanian is the first strong male figure many of his players have ever had, and they have a great deal of respect for him. The Father Flanagan image is not too far from the truth...
...recognize the underlying issues of domination and female competition. Then she exhorts women to refuse to suffer any longer for the sake of an ideal beauty in which adornment and style are a source of pain rather than pleasure. That is both an old challenge and a tall order...
SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL (CBS, Feb. 3, 9 p.m. EST). Glenn Close plays a mail- order mother, circa 1910, who moves West to help a widowed farmer ! (Christopher Walken) take care of his two children. Another huggably homespun Hallmark Hall of Fame drama, enhanced by two sincere performances...
...would be good to report that he has managed another conjuring act, but that is not quite true. The Laughing Sutra is very promising and often funny. But the author opts for the picaresque, and nowadays it's a tough act to bring off because ordinary headlines make tall tales look tame...
...spectacular. At a Friday briefing in Saudi Arabia, Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner showed videotapes of two laser-guided bombs sailing through the open doors of a bunker in which an Iraqi Scud missile was stored, and a third plopping down the rooftop air shaft of a tall building in Baghdad -- apparently the headquarters of the Iraqi air force -- and then blowing off the top floors. Bombs and missiles also hit other targets around and even in the heart of Baghdad -- Saddam's presidential palace, for one -- while apparently doing little damage to civilian lives or < property. Though Baghdad...