Word: uptowners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city that evening, Tarchick?s crew spots a signal. Below, Edna Fleming (her head nearly bald from cancer chemotherapy), her boyfriend Curtis and some of her relatives and friends have been camped for three days out at the top apartment of a two story house on Upper Line in uptown New Orleans. Early on, they could still be merry about the predicament, using their gas stove to deep-fry the frozen chicken as it thawed, and celebrating her niece Nakisha Washington's 29th birthday by opening a Jack Daniels Down Home Punch cooler that had floated by. But the waters...
...Orleans and Baton Rouge phone lines were overwhelmed with calls, making it difficult for four College students from the same high school, Isidore Newman in Uptown New Orleans, to reconnect. Lester Leung '06, who spent the summer in Cambridge, set up a message board online...
...some she remains the curvy girl from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S swimsuit issues. To others she is the inspiration of Singer Billy Joel's Uptown Girl. But to Clothes Maker Russ Togs, Christie Brinkley, 31, is the name of a line of clothes that had a loss of more than $1 million in the six months ending in August. Last week the New York-based company dropped its Brinkley division, which it had kicked off in August...
Though we are no monarchy, America has its own sort of aristocracy, where the rich are encouraged to marry the rich. Many a Hollywood tale has told of the frowned-upon romance between the uptown girl and the downtown man. Besides bringing me back to my middle school dreams, watching Leonardo DiCaprio at the Oscars reminded me that Jack was not allowed to marry Rose—and that is inexorably the tragedy of Titanic...
...security is just one sign of how tense this campus has become. For nearly six months now, a cloud of controversy has hovered over Morningside Heights, the quiet uptown Manhattan neighborhood that is home to Columbia. At the center of the storm is the school’s Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC), a small unit of 20 full-time professors, some of which have come under fire for allegedly fostering academic intimidation in their classes...