Word: agented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wanted to be a part of that greatness from the time she was a toddler. Knightley was only 3 when she announced that she wanted an agent. Her parents persuaded her to wait a bit. But when their daughter's desire resurfaced a few years later, they reluctantly allowed her to act in television and commercials but not onstage, fearing that evening curtains would ruin her schoolwork. They also refused to give her a lick of formal training. Other than a recent Christmas gift from her father--a book on acting for the stage--her parents have been steadfast...
...expensive, but leaving the home unattended for long periods of time could lead to break-ins and costly damage if, say, a water pipe bursts and no one is around to notice. If this is your first vacation home, the Better Business Bureau suggests hiring a rental agent or management company to help you take care of it for the first year...
Four years and several teams later, he returned to the Bruins for the 2003-04 season, officially ending his relationship with the team when he became an unrestricted free agent at midnight on July 1. Despite the formal parting, several members of the organization, including coach—and former Boston University opponent—Mike Sullivan, were present to offer their congratulations...
...those skeptics in the audience, Fahrenheit brings in the experts: a senator/psychologist discusses the culture of fear created by the color-coded security alerts, a former FBI agent bemoans how easily the Bin Laden family was allowed to flee the country after September 11. These official-seeming people lend comfort to those who can’t take the emotion, the bloody Iraqi bodies, as evidence...
...Here’s an example: The middle-aged assistant in the business class lounge at the Cairo airport (I arrived there through a travel agent fluke, a story for another day) showed me the various lounge rooms with a mischievous smirk: “This is the English lounge: it’s cold and dark, like the English! This is the American lounge: it’s big and bright, like Americans! This is the French lounge: there is no service here!” Though it’s illegal—you will find no books...