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...rare white Chinese river dolphin finally driven "functionally extinct" after surviving for 20 million years, and then I look at my knuckles. They, too, are white. In the midst of this low-decibel bedlam, how can anyone concentrate long enough to read anything? Except, up there on the screen, the crawl. Got... to... focus... on... the... crawl...
...someone has popped onto the screen who is wearing a Cautionary Look. Wait! Isn't that the same bland necktie, the same bland jacket, the same bland face of the man who was trying surreptitiously to blow his nose into USA Today over there by the recycle receptacle just moments ago? Now he's on TV? I lurch over closer to the screen. Maybe he's warning me not to get on that plane...
...conundrum. But what is this on the screen? A dolphin. In China. With an enormous human arm shoved down its throat! It's not enough that they're overfishing dolphins to extinction, they're torturing the last survivor! Is there at long last no decency left...
...when you need two gats to go to sleep. A guide to the strapped and insomniac of 2006. 6. Stephen Colbert vs. The Decemberists The Decemberists were put on notice/blast after the Report’s host accused them of stealing his idea for a green screen video challenge. Portland, OR’s own (holla!) fired back with a counter-challenge; not to be outdone, Colbert quickly responded with a counter-counter-challenge. Winner: Draw—for now. The score should be settled when Decemberist Chris Funk takes on Colbert in a guitar solo competition on the Report...
Julio D. Montejo ’10 anxiously eyed his computer screen, preparing for the worst. Having applied to UCLA last year, Montejo worried that he might receive an e-mail notifying him that he was one of the 800,000 students whose personal information might have been accessed by a hacker who penetrated UCLA’s applicant database over the past year. After a tense interlude, Montejo relaxed. “Apparently, I’m safe,” he said. He was one of the lucky ones. Bearing the subject line, “UCLA Warns...