Word: card
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unable to personally enjoy became a fairly common experience. One of the fashion assistant’s more exciting tasks is “scouting,” which involves visiting über-exclusive boutiques in the most snobby parts of the city, displaying a Vogue business card, and leaving with piles of loot to be used in shoots. It was the ultimate in retail vindication: Minutes after entering a designer store only to be greeted with death stares from Ivana Trump look-alike assistants, I would saunter out with a huge sack of shoes equivalent in value...
...fact that I would never myself become a full-fledged fashionista became painfully apparent as time wore on. Flashing the Vogue card always felt a little pretentious and slightly phony. For one thing, everyone who forges a career in fashion magazines is always immaculately groomed. At the whim of a stylist, who envisaged a “boho-chic” shoot surrounded by red desert sands, we drove 15 hours from Sydney to a town in the middle of the Australian outback incidentally made famous as the location where the drag-queen epic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen...
After triple-bogeying her first hole of the tournament, sophomore Jeen-Joo Kang bounced back to card an 80. She finished with a score...
...immediately issued a red card and taken off the field. Ara remained on the ground for a few minutes but was eventually able to get up and walk off the field—and, of course, return later to score again...
...said. “Then the ball got played back to me, and he hit me in the face with an elbow, but the ref didn’t see it. Then the [Quidachay-Swan] knocked me down with his elbow and got the red card...