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...growth and dénouement, we learn nothing. This cycle of promise and disappointment, however, is broken when the sugarcoated elements collide with the newfound thematic darkness. Simple, major key guitar chords create upbeat melodies—but when paired with the chill of lyrics like “uncross my arms to disarm the car bomb,” the song offers a strange fusion. More fascinating still is when the dark, lo-fi “Shining”—shaded by a slow, monotonous melody and the thick bramble of guitar—meets...
...SHARON STONE, with British co-star DAVID MORRISSEY, revisits the 1992 role that made her famous. "We like to think of this as Basic Instinct: The European Version," says Stone, 47. "We were very, very free." Um, how free? "Am I going to sit around and cross and uncross my legs again? Well, I guess everybody will have to pay their $10 to find out." But don't hold your breath for a trilogy. Says Stone: "It would have to be called Basic Instinct 3: It Depends, and they'd have to shoot it in a nursing home...
...roommates and I found unlikely inspiration late one night sophomore year, while sitting on a wooden bench in the park outside Peet’s Coffee. As we passed around a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, we began to cross and uncross our legs in unison. Passersby eyed us curiously as we crossed and uncrossed with theatrical flourish and we saw the hint of potential in their stares...
Mothers across the nation can uncross their fingers. Chris O'Donnell, the sort of movie star most moms would want their daughters to bring home, is engaged. His intended is longtime girlfriend Caroline Fentress, a teacher and the sister of O'Donnell's roommate from back in the days when he was a fresh-faced marketing major at Boston College who happened to act in movies...
When a book makes headlines months before its scheduled release, the publisher and author can normally uncross their fingers and alert their accountants. Is such euphoria warranted even when the headlines are rotten? That question concerns Simon & Schuster and Joe McGinniss, the best-selling writer (The Selling of the President, 1968; Fatal Vision) whose forthcoming biography of Edward M. Kennedy, The Last Brother, has been prompting a blizzard of bad news. Biographic License? headlined the Washington Post. The New York Times put the matter, bluntly, on its front page: Kennedy Quotes in New Book Are Invented...