Search Details

Word: vincent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...most beguiling romantic comedy this side of Broadcast News. Strains of Dean Martin's That's Amore -- "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" -- fill the Brooklyn night. A full moon illuminates Loretta Castorini (Cher) and all her family. Everybody falls in love. Her father (Vincent Gardenia), who claims he can't fall asleep because "it's too much like death," slinks out for a bit of tart on the side. Loretta's mother (Olympia Dukakis) dines furtively with a professor (John Mahoney) who keeps striking out with his prettiest students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Return of Comedy as King | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...opening moments of The Whales of August. The actors were all familiar, but from bygone eras. The last film I had seen starring Lillian Gish was made before the advent of talking pictures, and Bette Davis's heyday passed long before I was born. Although I had seen Vincent Price regularly as the host of PBS's Mystery, he too had faded from the movie screen...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: August Company | 1/8/1988 | See Source »

Last year the Cambridge library received a $15,000 grant from the state Board of Commissioners to create the service. Some of that money went to build the shelves to the MBTA's strict specifications. Spokesman Vincent Carbona said MBTA officials wanted to ensure that the bookcase would fit in with the station's general appearance and would not cause a safety hazard...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Library Goes Underground | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...major question in the current investigation is whether the chairman of the Board of Trustees, Vincent Magno, did indeed sign the papers agreeing to Indelicato's purchase of the land, Conroy said. Magno denies that the signature is his, according to an article in The Boston Globe...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: College Head Resigns Amid Controversy | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...hearing-impaired twelfth-grade students at University High School in Irvine, Calif., last week marked a special homecoming. With hugs, flowers and sign-language messages of "I love you," they welcomed back Career Counselor Vincent Chalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: Back to School | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next