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...bears and baby hippos, with sad and hilarious results. The trio A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995) were mini-epics starring Wallace, a staid, daft suburban bachelor inventor, and his brilliant, long-suffering dog Gromit. Park has now adapted to feature length his obsession with the forlorn wit of caged animals, with the quiet exasperation of rural English life, with complex machinery destined to go wrong--and with bead-eyed, lipless creatures who have more lower teeth (six or eight) than upper (four). These features give his characters a perpetually dazed expression...
...maturity, Jim listens to Uncle Zeno explain how to use the hoe and then sets to work. After a while, though, the task becomes less thrilling. He puts down his hoe and starts throwing rocks: "When Jim picked up his hoe, he noticed that it was about the length of a baseball bat. He grasped the handle right above the blade and took a couple of practice swings. He found a suitable hitting rock and tossed it up in the air and swung at it with the handle. Strike one." The topic covered here is not goofing off but rather...
...Length of the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron 850 ft. Length of the CargoLifter CL160, the world's largest blimp, being built in Germany to ferry industrial equipment...
...what else has O'Connor been doing these past few years? Well, O'Connor, whose last full-length album, Universal Mother, was released in 1994, says she's been raising her son Jake, 11, and her daughter Roisin, 3. (O'Connor is divorced, and her children have different fathers, the former by an ex-husband, the latter by an ex-boyfriend.) She has also passed the time deciding which record company she wanted to move to after her old label, Chrysalis, went under (she is now signed to Atlantic). She has gone through years of therapy (she has charged...
...house we also rely on the frying-pan test to judge whether a young kid is ready for feature-length animation. When she understands that something hit by an object doesn't assume the shape of the object (i.e., Jerry smacking Tom in the head with a frying pan), I figure she's ready for anything Disney can throw at her--as long as I'm with her, and as long as the video isn't Bambi. I'm still trying to get over that...