Word: unfurls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem comes when the line is crossed between splendor and risibility. The troublesome answers to Turandot's three riddles are contained in pennants attached to the back of her gleaming aqua dress; as Calaf gives the correct ; answers, her minions unfurl the flags. Too tricky by far, and the opening night audience just laughed. Further, the cast spent much of the performance looking down at its collective feet so as not to stumble across the treacherous obstacle course of risers and steps. As a result, Marton, born for the title role, was oddly tentative, the sturdy Domingo seemed distracted...
Still, the circus of sleaze didn't unfurl its tend until Meg made her fatal mistake--she died. When her children, Bessie and John, found out that they didn't even get the placque that used to hang over the kitchen sink with the Lord's Prayer on it, all hell broke loose. Special crack teams of Rockefeller lawyers, trained in jungle survival techniques by G. Gordon Liddy and in rhetoric by Jesse Jackson, sprang out of camouflaged foxholes to launch a frontal attack on the U.S. judiciary system. The objective: $50 million in diamonds, stock, and Third World countries...
...took over in March with a mandate to breathe new life into a company that has been suffering from sluggish revenues and ebbing morale. Dilenschneider wants Hill & Knowlton to help its corporate clients deal more effectively with touchy policy issues. Says he: "With all due respect to people who unfurl banners in front of a hot dog stand, that's not my shtick...
This summer's ceremony to unfurl the miles of banner will culminate an ongoing grassroots effort to achieve an underground nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and a binding nuclear freeze resolution in Congress. According to Carol Grodzins, chairperson of the Massachusetts Nuclear Freeze Committee, the banner statement will be a timely one because of the Senate's decision to reconsider the Test Ban Treaty this year...
Days after the hostages were freed, a New York Times editorial marveled that they had "returned to a different country than the one they knew only 14 months ago." Declared the Times: "Now the pride and patriotism that many people tried to unfurl during the Bicentennial have erupted without embarrassment. It's not as though there were no more divisions in the country ... But on every side, there has suddenly appeared a need to express national unity, to demonstrate an unashamed patriotism." From the outset, Reagan benefited from this yearning: the hostages left Iran on his Inauguration...