Word: panse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ER, based on a script of Crichton's that had been moldering around Hollywood for 22 years, is just the latest evidence that Crichton hits more passes than anyone else at the high roller's table, even with old dice. From his best-selling The Andromeda Strain (the first novel...
It is too early to predict, however, whether this rare elixir (called leptin, after the Greek leptos, meaning slender) will be a stunning pharmaceutical success or just another "miracle" cure that never pans out. Even if all goes well, it could be five to 10 years before leptin is approved...
Michael Chabon's likable first novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" -- a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay -- was received with glad cries that still reverberated when his short story collection, "A Model World," appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't...
The promo begins with the swell of Coplandesque melodies. The camera pans over spacious skies, over purple mountains' majesty and amber waves of...tobacco. We hear the voice-over of a man, a simple farmer; we'll call him Merle: "Some things jes git better with time..." (more Copelandesque strains...
SINCE THE FALL OF THE COMMUNIST BLOC in 1989 and the loss of Soviet subsidies in 1992, Cuba has suffered through a period of plummeting prosperity that is euphemistically known as the ``special period.'' Imports have dried up. Industry has folded in on itself. Cuba's No. 1 money earner...