Word: whiffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's a whiff of ganja in the air as Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers take the stage of Manhattan's Academy theater under a backdrop of painted African masks. The band launches into a chugging Jamaican groove, and the young crowd that has filled the house churns and bobs to the buoyant, upside- down beat. Midway through the show the Melody Makers break into an impassioned rendition of the Bob Marley classic I Shot the Sheriff and then segue into the blistering grind of Head Top, from their strong new album Joy and Blues. As Ziggy, 24, rekindles...
...grandparent today. So despite its billing as "new," Tommy becomes that oddest of entities, a period rock musical -- playing to a nonperiod audience. Unimaginably to kids who boogied in the aisles at concert versions way back when, the Broadway crowd cheers while sitting sedately, and there isn't a whiff of controlled substances in the house...
...STORM CLOUDS HAD PASSED OVER, leaving behind a cool, clear Florida evening, a perfect night for the grandest spectacle that baseball could offer: Nolan Ryan pitching in a spring-training ball park so intimate that there are no bad seats. Ryan, "the Wizard of Whiff," 46 years young (Bill Clinton's junior by five months), was dazzling against the New York Yankees on this mid- March evening. For the 5,000 lucky fans, all that mattered was the explosive pop of Ryan's fastball into the glove of Texas Ranger catcher Ivan Rodriguez. During his five-inning stint, Ryan...
Lovers often claim that they feel as if they are being swept away. They're not mistaken; they are literally flooded by chemicals, research suggests. A meeting of eyes, a touch of hands or a whiff of scent sets off a flood that starts in the brain and races along the nerves and through the blood. The results are familiar: flushed skin, sweaty palms, heavy breathing. If love looks suspiciously like stress, the reason is simple: the chemical pathways are identical...
...surprisingly conventional and toothless. Staffers quake at the mere thought of a meeting with Jackie, but he turns out to be an easily manipulated dunce. The inside-TV humor is too familiar, as are the supporting players (Martin Mull, Alison LaPlaca). Even Arnold's performance has the whiff of a recycled Dave Thomas character from SCTV. Still, the show has a fiendish glint in its eye, and with its surefire time slot (following Roseanne on Tuesdays), it may be around long enough to forge a fresh path...