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Gainful summer employment at Camp Chunder Camp, while neither gainful, redundant, nor redundant lacks the glamour of an average Harvard summer. However, what it lacks in resume readiness and career preparation, it more than makes up for in living preparation and the ability to wear a sarong all day, all the time. Success stories abound as we have yet to lose a camper and survived our first electrical storm last night. And few places give one the opportunity to travel so prolifically: Sweeden, South Paris, China, and Dixfield...
...burly Paul Hogan types who spent their days drinking beer and chasing dingoes with their mates, if only because the only place you’re likely to see a dingo near Sydney is in Taronga Zoo (of course, the traffic cops are called rangers and wear uniforms better suited for the outback, but that’s a whole separate topic...
...sprinkling water on the earth floor of his unfinished house to banish bad spirits. A married father of two, he was dragooned as a porter for Burmese military units fighting Karen rebels. He rolls down his battered jungle boots to show scars caused by the shackles porters must wear. "When we were exhausted, they gave us nothing. Instead, they hit us. If someone didn't move, an officer would take a stick and beat the man to death." Nan Tiya claims he and other captives were ordered to bury the corpses of 17 porters who had been killed by Burmese...
...desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother, who displayed such sport to him during his childhood, indulgently calls this business "going all loopy." The narrative works simultaneously as a send-up of werewolf legends and as a disquieting portrait of a suffocating mama and a son with...
While some experts think the novelty will wear off, many customers keep buying again and again. This year Joan Ripple of Las Vegas has purchased more than 200 Home Shopping items, ranging from a mink Teddy bear to a two-inch color TV. Another steady customer, Gloria Jones of Cordova, Tenn., confesses, "I pretty well watch it all the time." Among her TV purchases: a high-tech telephone programmed for speed dialing the Home Shopping Club when the next bargain appears. --By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles and Lianne Hart/Houston