Word: winded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...access to guns. Without the guns, his difficulties might have ended in a playground fight. Weise's admiration for Hitler might have faded, or, in the best of scenarios, it might have been addressed by counseling. Too many fights--between husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings--wind up with someone dead rather than with just dishes thrown and doors slammed. So long as weapons are easily available, this horror will continue...
...you’re going to complain about the snow or the wind or the temperature, you’d better just pack your bags and head out. And don’t forget your fucking sandals...
...everything else in Terrel Seltzer's script is fully assimilated. And so Mom's Old World neighbors play mahjongg with her, then go home to "see what Alexis is up to" on Dynasty. When Geraldine and her kindly, crumpled uncle (Victor Wong) botch a home-cooked Chinese meal, they wind up dining at McDonald's. On the sound track, a zheng and a keening saxophone play a duet of The Star-Spangled Banner. One expects this felicitous cross-fertilization from Director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing), who was born in Hong Kong and named after John Wayne...
...decorous pictorial style, Wang calls on yet another culture, for Dim Sum is, in a way, You Can't Take It with You as it might have been adapted by the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. The eccentric Tam household is memorialized in painterly images: the wind shuddering through the curtains next to Mom's sewing machine, the rows of shoes ceremoniously placed by the front stairway. Tradition holds firm in this house, and those who dwell in it, like Geraldine and Uncle, must be modern martyrs to Mom's insistence on doing things the old way. Here is a life...
...compound Harvard’s difficulties, the wind died on Sunday—but the transfer of Johnson and Porter signaled that the race was not the team’s top priority...