Word: thumbs
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...depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight and out of shape, he will no longer be able to lift either thumb."). Everyone was getting all hot and bothered. Even castrated people were getting so excited that, by 1997, a whole group of them in California decided they couldn't wait any longer and left our soon-to-explode planet early. By 1999, Pat Robertson was selling tickets to seminars where people...
...even the Hampstead series is freaked by the specter of white eccentricity. Day's milieu was like a gentle giant, fumbling to grasp exotic cultures, but instead squashing them under its thumb. He never antagonizes his many black, Algerian and working-class subjects, but he frequently objectifies them, making them into statues. Although his white nudes are more marmorial by virtue of their whiteness, they are always dignified by their reference to a classical subject, usually a god. On the other hand, the black nudes of Day's early career, the disadvantaged white youths of his later years and even...
PASSWORD REPLACEMENT INVENTOR: BIOLINK Your brain is big, but it has better things to do than remember an eBay password. Thumbprints, however, have nothing to do--ever. So Biolink's U-Match Mouse comes with a thumb scanner and easy-to-install software that renders passwords obsolete. Up to 10 thumbprints can be held in memory at any time, and parents can limit the access of younger thumbs...
...remember a photograph from one of Clinton's first visits to the Oval Office after his first election. He was wearing a short-sleeved sport shirt and was sprawling at his desk. He was drinking a large mug of root beer, and he had his large white thumb projecting through the handle around the tankard. The waves of vulgarity this picture gave off made me have the strong instinct that he was going to vulgarize the office of the presidency...
...ShowStopper sometimes got confused about what channel I asked for, which meant that I spent a lot more time watching U.S. Marshals on TNT than I really wanted to. It doesn't help that the onscreen interface is clunky or that handling the humongous remote control is like thumb wrestling Andre the Giant. The other day my wife flopped down on the couch. "I could watch TV," she sighed, "but it's too much work...