Search Details

Word: whaled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Crimson, 7-0 at The Whale Yale 0-0-0--0 HARVARD...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: Icewomen Impale Yale, 7-0 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Does his inadequacy with the figure matter? Yes, but not fatally. Turner himself -- whose Slave Ship, often seen in New York in the 1870s, is probably the main source for Ryder's perennially astonishing vision of Jonah in the churning waters, about to be swallowed by the whale -- also drew figures like slugs. Still, when you look at the figures in Ryder's The Story of the Cross, whose "awkward posture and flattened quality" the catalog rather optimistically likens to Duccio and Cimabue, you know that any such comparison is impertinent. The Ryder is pious kitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America's Saintly Sage | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Then I realized that I was standing on the machine and that it probably had an internal scale to detect when people lied. I kept wondering if, after I left, the next person would be treated to the message, "Wooh! You're a lot lighter than the whale who was just on here." I briefly considered transferring to a river house...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Climbing the Stairway to Hell | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

Last year, Yale finished 10th in the league. Ninth on offense. Eleventh on defense. Except for the annual Elis upset of Harvard at the Yale Whale, the Bulldogs can expect more of the same this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And the Bottom of the Heap | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

Precisely what makes the Endangered Species Act unique is that it views the % world not through man's eyes but from the high ground of the Creation. It sets no test for survival and respects the meek as it does the mighty. The humpback whale and the black rhinoceros enjoy no greater protection than the noonday snail and the lakeside daisy. Recently an inch-long unpigmented eyeless shrimp found in a sinkhole near Gainesville, Fla., joined the ranks of the imperiled. In shielding the humblest species, the act expresses its highest reverence for diversity, and has evolved into an almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Down with The God Squad | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Previous | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | Next