Word: thundering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...
Fortunately for the Crimson, that Army was the host Cadets (1-3-2 overall, 1-2-1 ECAC) from West Point, who saw their lead disappear like a Stealth Bomber. Harvard (3-1, 3-1) enlisted its own Operation Imminent Thunder in the third period, scoring four unanswered goals en route to a 5-2 victory in Tate Rink...
Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...
...dominated its Japanese rivals so completely that Tokyo experts quipped, "When IBM sneezes, Japanese computer makers are blown away." No longer. Last week Fujitsu, Japan's largest computer company, unveiled what it called the highest-performance general-purpose computer in the world. The timing of the announcement stole thunder from IBM, which the next day introduced its own new generation of mainframe machines. IBM touted the new computers as its most important roll-out in 25 years...
...audience's lowest common denominator, The Two Jakes forces the viewer to pay very close attention while the plot unfolds onscreen. Towne returns to his former scripting glory (with a little bit of help from Nicholson) after sinking to an all-time low with the recently released Days of Thunder. The Two Jakes is a great detective story, with all the clues, (intelligent) action, and philosophical narrative voice overs that accompanies the best in the genre. But more than that, the film is about persons and their personalities...