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Finally, Vellucci deserves your vote today because he hates that semi-secret Bow St. social club, the Harvard Lampoon (He has said its castle resembles a urinal), and because he loves trees. Vellucci has planted trees all over Cambridge, and was instrumental in replacing the Liberty Elm brutally murdered last year by vegicidal 'Poonsters...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Go Vellucci | 11/5/1991 | See Source »

Every day, as I wade my way across Lake Stoughton in my pre-chem, semi-conscious state, I am reminded by a horde of hungry, humming arthropods that the bathroom is essentially its very own biosphere--in which we poor humans are at the bottom of the food chain...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: A Delicate Ecosystem | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

...forgot it. After all, he is the President who defended the sale of AK-47's on the grounds that they could be used for legitimate hunting. This issue works in much the same way as crime: popular fear=Democratic success. And who could possible disagree with banning semi-automatic weapons? Bush tried, and he sounded like an idiot. No doubt, NRA funding will force Bush to continue to try to defend what is popularly indefensible, leaving this issue solely for the Democrats. Even Ronald Reagan supported the Brady Bill, which Bush opposed...

Author: By Tom S. Hixson, | Title: It Ain't Over Yet | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...star of this semi-surreal video is Elizabeth Taylor, which is fortunate, since a lot is riding on the spot, dubbed "White Diamonds: The Movie." Cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden is gambling on Taylor's beauty, celebrity and legendary appetite for diamonds to launch its new perfume in the face of tough odds. Times are shaky in the $18.5 billion U.S. cosmetics and toiletries industry, yet no fewer than three giants are launching new fragrances this season, reportedly spending as much as $25 million each on advertising alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fragrances The War of the Noses | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...that doesn't seem to be good enough anymore. Now, if your neighbor does something annoying, you take out your shot gun and blow a whole through the front door. If somebody cuts you off on the L.A. Freeway, you knock out his or her tires with an unregistered semi-automatic weapon...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Low-Budget American Realism | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

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