Search Details

Word: tans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Saigon, as the NVA closed in, Major General Homer Smith, head of the U.S. defense attacha office, had by now finally got a major evacuation going out of the giant Tan Son Nhut air base just outside the capital. Even in early April, Smith's operation was moving out 500 people a day. April 20, says Smith, "was when we really started to pick up the pace and started moving people out." That was the date when simplified paperwork rules for departure went into effect--and two days before embassy officials tried to arrest Rosenblatt and Johnstone for attempting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAIGON: THE FINAL 10 DAYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...Scofflaws' ode, "William Shatner," is another prime example of the gleeful nature of ska. Dedicated to the actor of Star Trek fame, the few words of the song not suprisingly treat William Shatner as a mere synonym for Captain Kirk: "He's got a fine tan shirt with an emblem on the chest/ The interstellar girls all like him the best." MU330 from St. Louis also show their wackiness with the song "Stuff." Described playfully in the liner notes as being "a hopeless romantic sort of thing, really," this tune contains such memorable lines as "I'm just so tired...

Author: By Ryan S. Mccarthy, | Title: Put On Your Ska Outfit and Dance! | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

Written on the pieces of red paper are students' responses to the question: "Do you strongly identify with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" The responses are plagued by pathos-laden drivel, minority activist jargon and ethnic angst of the Amy Tan variety. They are exactly what one would expect from self-serious Asian college students looking to add excitement to their petty bourgeois existences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

...free-thinking, liberated-from-their-molds individuals smack of brainlessness. Claims that peer pressure and parental pressure to go pre-med have influenced some students' decisions make them seem easily manipulable and thought-controlled. Horror stories about piano lessons and SAT prep courses come right out of an Amy Tan novel about her mother...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Pre-Meds: It's in the Genes | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

...repair the damage, her staff sneaks into the White House carrying a new footboard disguised as a huge painting of a naked man. By the time Jamie Farr (Corporal Max Klinger from M*A*S*H) shows up in a dress, you just want to send these tan, happy people back to Hollywood where they belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Designing Congresswoman | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | Next