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...Scotty, the hapless gofer who desperately lunged to kiss porn star Dirk Diggler in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights? Or his wrenching portrayal of Allen, the obscene phone caller in Todd Solondz's Happiness? Now Joel Schumacher's Flawless brings us Rusty, a transsexual who befriends a homophobic stroke victim played by Robert De Niro. It's a typically gutsy performance that tightropes between drag-queen camp and the pathos of a man who believes he's the butt of a biological practical joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Margins | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz, an almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building. As part of his therapy he requires singing lessons to help him remobilize his frozen vocal cords. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his transvestite neighbor, is recruited to tutor him, while we settle down to await their inevitable bonding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flawed Friendship | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

MINITEL MINI-STROKE A French psychiatrist became temporarily blind in one eye and could barely speak--classic signs of a mini-stroke--after talking on the phone for an hour with the receiver tucked between his head and neck. Physicians believe the torqued position tore a neck artery that supplies blood to the brain. It's only one case, but the rest of us can learn from it. If you cradle the receiver, be sure to switch sides or transfer it to your hand from time to time. Better yet, try a headset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...came to see me in February and asked if he could come out for quarterback," Sidlecki said. "It was no stroke of genius. We had only two QBs in the program at the time and needed more just for spring practice...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walland's Got the Wand | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...counting on that contrast to help eke out victory in New Hampshire, then South Carolina and Michigan. After that, he says, he (somehow) becomes inevitable. In other words, he needs a hole in one. Lucky for him that his old persimmon club has lately found such a nice, sweet stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: McCain Hits The Sweet Spot | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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