Word: though
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...have a shower and running water. The toilet is a problem, though. Designed to flush, it sometimes doesn't, owing to an overly lavish use of tissue, which I don't wish to go into at this time. Suffice it to say the person behind the clogs is not myself or my child, and I've had several long talks with her about...
...Though your form includes as a possible answer "Learning, remembering, or concentrating," such choices do not accurately describe my own peculiar set of chronic impairments, which go back 30 years. My inordinate fear of male clowns, for example, especially those with heavy rouge on their cheeks that only partly conceals their stubble. Or my nagging suspicion that some short-order cooks really do blow their nose in the soup, and far more often than their customers realize. Also, I have a habit, in public rest rooms, of drying my hands on the inside of my shirt rather than using those...
...real progress toward improving the lives of Indian women--until a brutal act demonstrated how powerful the repressive force of misogyny can be. Bhanwari Devi, a local woman who was working with Srivastava, was gang-raped by upper-caste men after she tried to stop a Brahman child wedding. Though the rape was witnessed by Bhanwari's husband, the police refused to investigate, and Bhanwari was ostracized. Bhanwari eventually managed to file a police report, but the high court acquitted the alleged rapists. One judge said simply that he did not believe upper-caste men could commit a crime...
Pretty soon, though, that won't be enough. And that's the one, colossal bummer about this new digital democracy: you probably need more money than ever just to tell people where to find you. The only way the do-it-yourselfers can get themselves noticed when they're up against the giant marketing power of the studios is through viral marketing--which works if your stuff gets people so excited that they e-mail it to two friends, who each in turn e-mail it to two friends, who each e-mail it to two more friends. This works...
...right, though, that for the first time in history, it's pretty good to be a creative person. With all these websites looking for shows, even writers are finding gainful employment. Charles Dahlgren, 27, and Sam Music, 25, had been showing their NYPD Blue and Action scripts to every agency in Los Angeles and getting rejected by all of them. So they decided to use their own money to make an Internet version of The Satan Show--a cartoon allegory in which hell is ruled by people who closely resemble the Hollywood execs who had been rejecting...