Word: stack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Museum, sought to remedy her unease by combining productivity and pleasure.Davey’s beloved books are everywhere in her photographs. They appear first in four oversized photographs of books with their spines facing away from the camera. The books–of which we see only stacks of yellowing pages draped in shadows and dust–lack authors, titles, and other distinguishing features. The books’ character is conveyed by their numbers; they are the possessions of a bibliophile who keeps even the books she hasn’t read in decades. Books return...
...Like sardines released from a can, we jumped out of the car. Inside the cemetery’s walls, the silence was so thick that it bounced off the rows of tombs stacked like chests of drawers (a particularly creepy image when you envision folded socks and underwear stuffed in there with the dead people). The wind whispered gently in the background—in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what...
...That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom-in on a table in the foreground. A stack of magazines lies on the table, the content of which seems to entirely focus on—guess who?—Chingy. Tabloid pictures of Chingy clubbing with friends and waxing his car, for example, come alive as he joins BFFs Bobby Valentino and Ludacris in stepping...
Hillary’s platform notes that we should measure school improvement based on the year-to-year performance of students rather than by how schools with disparate local funds stack-up against each other. Currently, all schools are expected to have a certain percentage of students meet a predetermined level of math and reading proficiency each year. This is a bit like asking the tortoise to beat the hare. It’s possible, but highly unlikely outside the fairy-tale world of stump-rhetoric. Rather than asking low-income schools to catch-up to institutions soaked in high...
...faculty, it’s that time of the month. The undergraduates are at it again—frantically browning their noses, that is—and no combination of office hours, extensions, and reference letters will shut them up. There’s a growing stack of graduate school applications to reject, and the wannabes that have already gotten through are hard-pressed to tie their own shoelaces, let alone grade exams, without professional help. The kids are back in school—thank God—but the damned hybrid doesn’t handle well...