Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Formerly called Weatherman, from a line in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...
...that, Administration officials still believe that they will wind up with a workable program after conference committees resolve differences between the House and Senate versions. Some changes in the bill by the Senate were all but inevitable. For one thing, oil, gas, utility and other lobbyists who lost in the House are making a maximum effort to protect their interests. Also, the Administration lacks a forceful Senate champion who could steer the program through the upper chamber as Speaker Tip O'Neill did in the House. Russell Long, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and other powerful Senators have been critical...
GERMAN CINEMA has pretty much emerged over the past few years from the considerable shadow once cast over the Continent by its French and Italian rivals. As names like Fassbinder and Rohmer wind their way into the consciousness of committed American moviegoers, the enthusiastic receptions accorded their latest works have begun to assume all the earmarks of a modern-day Emperor's New Clothes parable. The New York film critie cliques seem all too ready to applaud the arrival of a new "school" of film. And once the Sarrises and Gilliatts affix their all-important seal of approval...
...takes over with a whining rendition of Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful The crowd of 1,500 cheers, hoisting half-empty Lone Star beers toward the stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind. By now the audience is standing on chairs, whooping, waving Stetsons and screaming for more. The scene is good-time Texas honky-tonk anarchy. It is Saturday night at the Austin Opry House...
...other part of the female anatomy is singled out for celebration from one season to the next, legs are mostly left to hoof it. Beautiful Legs are particularly badly treated in winter, when they are either stuffed into pants and rendered unviewable or left like Dickensian waifs to battle wind-chill factor through a pinch of pantyhose. When Beautiful Legs complain about this scurvy treatment, they are curtly told by designers to go take a walk...