Search Details

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


Usage:

...Prime Minister's table are empty now, and the long cloth is littered with the remains of a large early-evening repast: half-eaten bowls of lamb and okra, traces of hummus, a dented mound of rice. As he stirs three small, white tablets of artificial sweetener into a tear-shaped glass of tea, Ibrahim al-Jaafari describes the scolding he gave the Minister of the Interior that morning. A U.S. raid the day before had found evidence that Iraqi police were torturing detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad. Soon after he was told about it, al-Jaafari announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Note To My Successor | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...musing on the workings of communist ideology, Czech writer Milan Kundera notes about what he calls the two tears of kitsch. ?The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass. The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dream Life of the North Koreans | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

...luck happens to everybody. But as the Crimson co-ed sailing team proved, it’s how you react to it that makes a difference.The Harvard squad went on a tear during the second day of the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship, held in St. Mary’s City, Md., to make up for setbacks suffered in the regatta’s first half. The late boost earned the Crimson a third-place ranking and a final score of 228 total points, with Brown University taking home top honors with a tally of 206.“I thought...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Overcomes First Day Problems | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...over. All of my midterms were finally behind me, and in place of frantic studying, I could resume my usual activities of napping, editorializing, and trying to finish the Harry Potter series. At least until three weeks from now, when we all get the privilege of beginning to tear our hair out for the second time this semester. That’s right folks—just when you thought it was safe to stop going to lecture again, here comes the wave of “second midterms,” looming on the horizon like a storm cloud...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whenever-we-feel-like-it-terms | 11/8/2005 | See Source »

...Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character closes her cozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Got Pluck | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | Next