Word: yore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blogs are inverting the cozy media hierarchies of yore. Some bloggers are getting press credentials for this summer's Republican Convention. Three years ago, a 25-year-old Chicagoan named Jessa Crispin started a blog for serious readers called bookslut.com "We give books a better chance," she says. "The New York Times Book Review is so boring. We take each book at face value. There's no politics behind it." Crispin's apartment is overflowing with free books from publishers desperate for a mention. As for the Times, it's scrutinizing the blogging phenomenon for its own purposes. In January...
Black is a woman’s best friend. It is slimming. It disguises figure flaws, and it is easy to pretend that you look like Angela Jolie on a mission to Cambodia. However, this year’s black transcends the simple shift dresses and T-shirts of yore. Designers have been using it to complement complicated and intricate designs. Quirky details and structural originalities have been dominating the new black, rendering it a mix of Victorian ingenuity and modern couture. In order to avoid looking like you have been mourning Prince Albert for forty years, however, choose...
...Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer” to focus so successfully on the ol’ blood n’ guts scenes that both electrified and nauseated audiences. And “Venom” does recreate the gore of yore with as much frequency, if not more...
...days of yore were a thing of the past, not because they needed to be, but because both Dawson and Fitzpatrick had agreed that they be. Each could have demanded that he be the center of the offensive system—but neither...
Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, who has campaigned for workers’ rights and Harvard Corporation accountability, and helped plan the CIA protest, talked about the difference between students of yore and today. “Forty years ago students understood that the administration did not need their help, that they didn’t need to take the Man’s side to make protesters suffer more,” she said. “If Harvard’s going to Ad board somebody, they don’t need the vice president...