Word: ringing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...waves of cataclysm and calm. Masses of people became convinced the end was nigh when Rome was sacked in 410, when the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population of 14th century Europe, when the tectonic shudders of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused church bells to ring as far away as England, and certainly after 1945, when for the first time human beings harnessed the power to bring about their total destruction, not an act of God, but an act of mankind...
...RING...
...What Japanese horror master Hideo Nakata did for TV sets in his 1998 blockbuster The Ring, he does for drippy faucets in his latest film Dark Water, a tale of urban anxiety, domestic agony and spookily bad plumbing. Stressed-out single mother Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno) move into an apartment building with a serious humidity problem and a demonic elevator on loan from Poltergeist. They stick around even after a sinister water stain begins expanding on the ceiling and they learn that their building was once inhabited by a young girl...
...last 12 years, support for an urban ring has grown. This spring, the Conservation Law Foundation, an influential environmental group known for suing the state to clean up Boston Harbor, added its name to the list of supporters when it published a paper calling for the development of urban ring transit...
...Kennedy School of Government’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston sponsored the discussion and will publish a working paper on the urban ring proposal in the fall...