Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tremendous boost to the local economy," says Jacque Christofferson. She owns a logging, limousine and liquor company--nobody around here finds that the least bit unusual--and two of the three product lines are in great demand at festival time. "Rod does 40% of his annual liquor sales during the festival." Talk about entrepreneurial genius. Liquor them up, then drive them home...
That metaphor may be a bit of a stretch, even for Disney, but after seeing Beauty and the Beast: The Musical, the stretch may be worth the exercise. In the self-proclaimed "Smash Hit Musical," Disney works hard to prove that, as with everything else, it can put on a really pretty show with many dazzling special effects and less than 10 percent new material. Hey, if it succeeds in one form, one needs only alter the package a little to make it instantly popular again, right? While one would hope that this isn't true...
Sometimes I wonder whether we aren't a little bit too accepting of it. Naturally it makes sense that we, as students, haven't made up our minds yet about what to do with ourselves. And if you think about it, it also makes sense that conferring a diploma on somebody might not necessarily spark an instantaneous decision. But after a while, doesn't the endless moving, the constant future-looking, the neverending eagerness for what to do Next--doesn't it start...
While watching Washington pundits perform on TV or reading the views of some think-tanker, the middle manager occasionally finds himself thinking that classic philistine thought: What do they know? They've never had to meet a payroll. And he even finds himself sympathizing a bit with those who find it strange that anyone should care about the views of people who produce nothing but opinions, with no practical consequence, about matters they have no responsibility...
...lucky to be along for the ride, the Ringo. In books he usually has fewer index entries than even Lawford. "One guy wrote that I worked with the Rat Pack occasionally. Occasionally! Another talks about how I kissed Frank's ass. That hurt me a little bit. I know I sound bitter, but I have a right...