Word: using
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people's achievement when their success allows them to be known by one name (Picasso, Yanni). But a musician from Minneapolis, Minn., did those titans one better, insisting that he be referred to only as an unpronounceable hieroglyphic. Since 1993, the man born PRINCE Rogers Nelson has refused to use his given name to protest the terms of his recording contract. Last week, however, the singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead of the symbol...
...Hollywood doesn't find a way to use a bright, beautiful actress like Thandie Newton, it will be--in her own words--stupid, stupid, stupid...
...Boston fern, a golden apple, and a small blue cradle," only to discover that one of the keys, "a vowel, the very letter that attaches to the hungry self," won't work. The story about this deprivation unspools like a Mobius strip, since it too is told without the use of the letter...
...Norse raiders you wrote, "and while rape and pillage were part of the [Viking] agenda, they were a small part of Norse life." Are we now supposed to think better of the Vikings? Why don't you take a closer look at America's indigenous people? We could also use an update on those who were here when the Vikings supposedly arrived. MARCO PORTALES Bryan, Texas...
Just hours after Bill Cosby's words have finally dripped to a pointless conclusion, you will receive your first call from your alma mater. She will not want to chat. She will want money. Do not give it to her. She will use guilt, intimidation, peer pressure, sentimentality and sex. Actually, if she uses sex, you probably didn't go to such a great school and don't have a lot of spare cash anyway...