Word: vein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While De-Loused’s spiraling story line centered on the fictionalized dreams spawned by tormented childhood friend Julio Venegas’s time in a coma, Frances the Mute is purportedly based on a diary discovered and then continued in a similarly troubled vein by Jeremy Ward, the former Mars Volta bandmember who died of a drug overdose...
...elementary and middle schools have started separating classes by gender in an effort to eliminate the shrinking-violet syndrome. In San Antonio, Texas, for example, a dozen public middle schools offer single-sex math courses, which has helped Latinas, in particular, speak up in class. In a similar vein, North Carolina State University last year became one of several colleges that have created dorms solely populated by female science and engineering students. This year the number of freshmen and sophomores bunking there has more than doubled, to 165. The biggest benefit, according to program director Rachel Collins Butler, in addition...
...lyrics, accompanied by soothing, Enya-like vocals. In these songs, “Interstate 5 (Extended Version)” in particular, the guitars are drawn out to dramatic effect, churning and emotionally pulling, evoking images of intent searching on a dark highway, in the sort of film-music vein so inspirational to Cinerama...
...works in that vein were fantasies on paper or sets for Sean Connery. Some got built. Ricardo Porro is a Cuban architect who for a while enthusiastically served Fidel Castro but eventually emigrated to Paris. The Mori show includes a slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted...
...Well, if you hear President Bush tell it, Sunday's vote was a massive vindication of his grand plan to free the world of tyranny. In a similar vein, his chief ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, proclaimed the vote ?a blow right to the heart of the global terrorism that threatens destruction not just in Iraq but in Britain and virtually every major country around the world." Although Bush and Blair's sentiment was echoed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, such language was rarer among Iraqi voters, who tended to see the election as the fruit...