Word: blizzarded
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...dispatch Bush to West Virginia on the day before the first debate. Hoping to reverse the trend, Gore responded last week with an ad blasting Bush on the minimum wage, and the unions are kicking into gear on the ground: the United Mine Workers are considering an Election Eve blizzard of 10,000 phone calls...
Batterson: Yeah, I agree. Add to that the blizzard of tax forms you have to fill out and the additional taxes you have to pay local and state governments. There are just too many taxing agencies and entities for small businesses to deal with. I just had a shock earlier this year. We had a nice capital gain on an investment, and my accountant calls me and says, "Oh, guess what, the state of Illinois passed some new tax on capital gains that I never heard of and, by the way, that's going...
Remember when you were a kid, and there was a blizzard outside and you thought you'd get a day off? Then you saw that school bus heading up the street? To recapture that grim feeling of disappointment, listen to Hanson's new CD. On the brothers' debut, we gave 'em a pass, partly because they looked like little elves, partly because that song MMMBop was so darn catchy. Now they're older (ages 14, 17 and 19), two have cut their hair (goodbye, elf appeal), and though a couple of tracks are hummable, most of their new songs...
...seven Broadway critics of the day) to advertise a flop show of his in a full-page New York Times ad, a loving father, a ladies' man--the dictator who forced me to write Before the Parade Passes By overnight on a tinny hotel piano during a blizzard in Detroit and got it into the show, costumes and sets and all, in three days! A man feared and admired, and maybe the most colorful and successful producer of popular Broadway fare of all time...
...such a transformation does not strike Roberts, 49, as preposterous, it may be because her life has followed, in broad outline, the plot of a romance novel. Back in 1979, she was a housewife with two small sons living in a small house in rural western Maryland, when a blizzard dropped 3 ft. of snow outside the door. "Here I was," she says, "pretty much stuck in the house for several days playing Candy Land and rearranging the furniture. To keep sane, I decided to do something else...