Word: whaled
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...WHALE OF A TIME Oman is the only Arab member of the International Whaling Commission, dedicated to the conservation of whales. The waters off the coast of Oman are home to more than 20 species of marine mammals and provide both breeding and feeding grounds for sperm whales, dolphins and the endangered humpback whales. Head to the bluffs above Muscat to spot dolphins frolicking, or book a whale-watching cruise at Marina Bander al-Rowdha by calling...
...PACK YOUR CAMEL BAGS Seeking a trip to Oman that goes beyond standard travel agent offerings? Click here for camel safaris, balloon trips, archaeological tours and whale-watching expeditions. You can also find logistical support for academic research expeditions, location filming and jaunts to the Persian Gulf or to the east African coast...
...releases the company's more commercial films, Harvey has gone astray. He admits to being distracted, starting in 1999, when he was sidelined with a serious bacterial infection. He became focused on politics, campaigning for Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. But it was Talk magazine that became his white whale. A joint venture between Miramax and Hearst, the talked-about but uncompelling monthly died after less than three years. One Miramax executive says the company lost $27 million. Another says, "Talk was a constant distraction. Harvey wanted it to succeed as a magazine and financially, and every day was another...
...hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce combat, the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were still in place; one American had already been killed...
...cheering as two has-beens sloppily beat the crap out of each other, which becomes sickly real when you're watching Todd Bridges pop poor Rob Vanilla Winkle's head like a tetherball. It finally felt like watching, in some grimy corner of some city, watching two winos whale on each other in a back room for $20 and a bottle of Ripple. It should have been a guilty pleasure, but there just wasn't enough pleasure to cut the guilt. This was boxing at its skeeviest and most degrading, a 21st-century version of "Invisible Man"'s Battle Royal...