Word: windowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie can exasperate when it embraces -- and this is the last time we'll point this out, Hollywood, so listen up -- the cockamamie conventions of the thriller genre: the buddy-partner who announces his retirement, then dies violently; the smart female officer who's around for window dressing and romantic relief; the pot-bellied villain who is more athletic than the slim, trim hero; and the mandatory climactic chase, in which the bad guy loads his gun, the good guy careers across town, and the moviegoer checks his watch...
...large mirror, propped up behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition in rather liquid paint of a girl in a red cardigan and an artist in a mustard- colored shirt. The Velazquez references sink...
Buying a box air conditioner (the kind you put in your window)i can cost hundreds of dollars. Units are available at Lechmere and other major appliance stores. But check with your building superintendent before you buy--some dorms may not allow the unsightly boxes to mar their windows...
...this marriage be saved? Claiming that her husband had raped her, a woman in Prince William County, Virginia, cut off his penis while he slept, then drove off with the severed organ and tossed it out her car window. After police found it on the roadside, surgeons reattached the penis in a rare 9 1/ 2-hour operation. Doctors were optimistic that the man would regain most functions...
...housework even as the Vice President's wife -- that she was tagged "Plastic Pat." Washington sophisticates just didn't get it: that was the real Pat Nixon doing those homely family tasks, loving the life that had always been on the other side of the candy-store window. Far from plastic, she was steel, celebrating his victories even when she was often overlooked, biting back tears at his humiliations...