Word: bowlful
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...female audience, now went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them for free. So they ransacked your auntie's library for stories by Henry James (The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and, most sympathetically, E.M. Forster (A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards...
Snapping on her rubber gloves—the job would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits—she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...
CHARGED. ANNA AYALA, 39, Las Vegas woman who was arrested last month for attempted grand larceny after claiming she found a finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili; with conspiracy to commit fraud; in San Jose, Calif. The conspiracy charge was added after the mother of a construction worker told reporters that her son, who is now cooperating with police, lost part of his finger in a work accident and gave it to Ayala's husband to settle a $50 bet. Ayala faces nearly 10 years in prison and possible liability for the $2.5 million that Wendy's claims...
...Remember commercials? Those 30-second films about beer and cars? The ones you used to make a point of watching during the Super Bowl until Janet Jackson's boob popped out and they stopped making the funny offensive ones? The ones you used to watch between acts of TV shows, before you got TiVo or started watching everything on DVD? Yes, well, there's still a multi-billion dollar industry based on the premise that people still watch and pay attention to them...
...burned the 67-year-old in effigy, while former team manager Tommy Docherty harrumphed that "Manchester United's heart and soul were sold today." But fans may be blowing the whistle too soon: Glazer's business savvy helped another team he owns-the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-to a Super Bowl...