Crossword clues for borderline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous. 2 Showing bad taste. 3 Exhibiting borderline personality disorder. n. 1 A boundary or accepted division; a border. 2 An individual who has borderline personality disorder.
WordNet
adj. of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability" [syn: marginal]
n. a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line, border, delimitation, mete]
Wikipedia
"Borderline" is a song by American singer Madonna from her eponymous debut studio album Madonna (1983). It was released on February 15, 1984 by Sire Records as the album's fifth single. Written and composed by producer Reggie Lucas, the song was remixed by Madonna's then-boyfriend John "Jellybean" Benitez. She used a refined and expressive voice for the song. Its lyrics dealt with the subject of a love that is never fulfilled.
Contemporary critics and authors applauded the song, calling it harmonically the most complex song from the Madonna album and complimenting the dance-pop nature of the song. "Borderline" became Madonna's first top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number ten. In the United Kingdom it reached number two after it was re-released as a single in 1986. Elsewhere, the song reached the top 10 or top 20 of a number of European nations while peaking the singles chart of Ireland. The song was placed at 84 on Blender magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born", while Time included it on the critic list "All-Time 100 Songs".
The accompanying music video portrayed Madonna with a Latin-American man as her boyfriend. She was enticed by a British photographer to pose and model for him, but later returned to her original boyfriend. The video generated interest amongst academics, who noted the use of power as symbolism in it. With the video, Madonna was credited for breaking the taboo of interracial relationships and was considered one of her career-making moments. The release of the video on MTV increased Madonna's popularity further. Madonna has performed the song on her Virgin Tour (1985) and the Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008), where a punk-rock version of the song was performed. "Borderline" has been covered by a number of artists, including Duffy, Jody Watley, Counting Crows, and The Flaming Lips.
Borderline or border line may refer to:
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Borderline was a comics magazine created by former Comics International news and features editor Phil Hall, which was published from 2001–2003. Borderline was the first PDF comics magazine available to read on a computer or as a print-out.
Borderline was a cross between The Comics Journal and the NME with a heavy mix of mainstream American/British and international comic books. Comic books and creators from countries such as Brazil, Poland, and the Philippines were featured alongside American and British comic book icons.
"Borderline" is a song by British producer Michael Gray featuring Shelly Poole. It was released in July 2006 as his second single. While "Borderline" failed to match the success of its predecessor "The Weekend" it entered the top twenty on various charts including - the Official UK. Singles Chart and Dance Chart, UK. Upfront Club and Australian ARIA Club charts. It often fell off then re-entered the Australian ARIA Dance chart, for example it charted at number 20 on 12 February 2007, months after its initial release.
Borderline is a 1981 arcade game by Sega. The player controls a Jeep and has to destroy enemy refineries. There are four stages with different gameplay. The first stage plays very much like a vertical scrolling shooter. In the second stage, the player maneuvers his Jeep through underbrush, and enemies can only follow on its path, a concept later found for example in Dig Dug or Digger.
It was a launch game for the SG-1000.
Borderline is the fourth studio album by country music duo Brooks & Dunn. Released in 1996 on Arista Records, the album produced five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts for the duo: the Number One hit "My Maria" (a cover of a pop tune originally recorded by B. W. Stevenson), the #2 "I Am That Man", the #13 "Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing" (their first non-Top 10 single), another #1 in "A Man This Lonely", and finally "Why Would I Say Goodbye" at #8. Borderline was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA.
The song "My Love Will Follow You" was originally recorded by Buddy Miller on his 1995 album Your Love and Other Lies.
Borderline is a 1930 film, written and directed by Kenneth Macpherson and produced by the Pool Group in Territet, Switzerland. The silent film, with English inter-titles, is primarily noted for its handling of the contentious issue of inter-racial relationships, using avant-garde experimental film-making techniques, and is today very much part of the curriculum of the study of modern cinematography.
The film, which features Paul Robeson, Bryher and HD, was originally believed to have been lost, but was discovered, by chance, in Switzerland in 1983. An original 16mm copy of this film is now held in the Donnell Media Center, New York City Public Library. In 2006, the British Film Institute sponsored the film’s restoration by The George Eastman House and eventual DVD release with a soundtrack, composed by Courtney Pine. Its premiere at the Tate Modern gallery in London attracted 2,000 people. In 2010, the film was released with a soundtrack composed by Mallory Johns, and performed by the Southern Connecticut State University Creative Music Orchestra.
Borderline is a 1950 American romantic crime film directed by William A. Seiter starring Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor.
Borderline is a 1980 American drama film directed by Jerrold Freedman and starring Charles Bronson, Ed Harris and Bruno Kirby.
Borderline is the ninth album by Ry Cooder and was released in 1980 by the Warner Bros.
Borderline is a 2008 Canadian film directed by Lyne Charlebois and co-written with Marie-Sissi Labrèche, based on her novels Borderline and La Brèche. It has won ten awards and one nomination.
Borderline was an early-1970s band from Woodstock, New York, that fused elements of folk, rock, country and jazz. Consisting of brothers David Gershen (b. 1947) and Jon Gershen (b. 1950) as well as Jim Rooney (b. 1938), the trio recorded two albums, the second of which was not officially released until 2001, and then only in Japan, due to record company problems. Though the group did not enjoy a great deal of commercial success, it was part of the “Woodstock scene” of the early 1970s that included Van Morrison and the Band. Borderline was a forerunner of musical artists who would eventually be grouped under the “ Americana” genre. Also notable is that their two albums featured some well-known backing musicians including members of the Band. After Borderline broke up in 1974, the Gershen brothers pursued various projects while Rooney became a successful producer in Nashville, working with artists including Iris DeMent, Nanci Griffith and John Prine.
"Borderline" is a song recorded by American country music group The Shooters. It was released in October 1988 as the first single from their album Solid as a Rock. The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Borderline is a 2002 American television film directed by Evelyn Maude Purcell, a thriller about borderline personality disorder. It was released to luke-warm reception.
Borderline is an extended play (EP) by Swedish pop recording artist Tove Styrke. It is her first release internationally outside of Europe.
Usage examples of "borderline".
Two of the monkeys died and the third animal went into borderline shock, but somehow pulled through and survived.
The part about how some of us are starting to think that the label of borderline personality disorder or posttraumatic stress makes no difference.
Borderline malnutrition, osteoarthritis, chronic subdermal lesions, and a tumor that would have metastasized and killed him within a few years.
If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter.
We are suggesting that, in addition to its own insuperable difficulties on both phenomenal and noumenal planes, this literal no-self doctrine is all too easily confused with a borderline worldview, and, indeed, this does especially appeal to individuals who are already having difficulties forming a cohesive self.
It tends to play into the borderline worldview, as I described above, and thus throws us into the retro-Romantic notion that at some point in development a horrible mistake occurred, and we have undo the mistake by digging backward, instead of evolving forward to higher integrations that overcome a partialness.
So much of what was going on here seemed to sit on a borderline between imagination and reality.
She had dark, curly hair with only a subtle tint of red, high cheekbones, and a thin face that spoke of borderline malnutrition.
Certainly Nola Payne had some sort of mental illness, or a borderline personality at the very least.
But borderlines in general and Colonel Bentworth in particular don’t get cured.
But borderlines in general and Colonel Bentworth in particular don't get cured.
Luckily, I lose the worst of the borderlines during the four days of training.
These roads were older than history, their paths twisting to preserve routes around long-dried marshes, their walls following the borderlines of land once defined by hedgerows.
One has to admit he can always be fooled along the faint borderlines of sensation.
He had skirted the borderlines of crime before-anyone flying Latin American charters inevitably did.