Search Details

Word: vagrants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...entire cast does fine work, but Pfeiffer is a treasure. She calibrates each nuance of loss without seeming calculating. She makes Beth sensible and alive, as understandable as that nice woman next door whose sobs wake you in the night to remind you that we are all one vagrant step from heartbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ransom of the Heart | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant dream sequences and in Ludo's vagrant, clumsy stabs at embryonic machismo. Staring at himself in the mirror, he shoots off an imaginary gun, just like the other kids, and--he's really trying--adjusts his crotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: Ma Vie En Rose | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Late night trips to the bathroom just got a little harder for the residents of many first-year dorms. After a vagrant was discovered showering in the second floor bathroom of Hollis Hall North, the administration moved quickly to install key-locks in all dorms with common bathrooms (with the exception of Matthews Hall, which already boasts combination locks on its doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Locks to Bathrooms Ineffective Solution | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...didn't look like a vagrant," he said, nothing the suspect's expensive-looking sneakers. "The guy was not a daunting figure...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Twice Nabs Theft Suspect | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...early Eddie hits 48 HRS. and Beverly Hills Cop, but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep. The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car-ful of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with the hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next