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...allows viewers to sympathize with Dick and Jane’s dilemma. The humor of the film lies in the hilarious robbery scenes juxtaposed against suburban normalcy. When Dick and Jane attempt to rob a coffee shop, they also demand two iced mochas and non-fat muffins, with the cashier at gunpoint. It seems as if every movie this holiday season is a remake or adaptation—“King Kong,” “The Producers,” “Yours, Mine, and Ours?...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fun with Dick and Jane | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...works at a nearby office of H&R Block, the tax- return service. "I do everything there," she says. "I am the receptionist. The cashier. I open the office, close the office. I'm the one who takes the money to the bank. I do taxes." A widow, she lives alone in an apartment building for seniors. Her four children help with the rent, but she is reluctant to accept anything more. "All my children are great, but I do not like to ask them for anything," she said. "I'm waiting for myself to get old, when I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Promise | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image to find its tiny punch line. A single glowing word, CASHIER, beckons from roughly the point where the picture's diagonals converge, as if to suggest that a ringing register is the nexus through which the real energies of American life flow. What church bell could compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Case for Clutter | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...third-generation treasure hunter searching for the greatest treasure the world has ever known, ever. Nicholas Cage, who seems to have convinced himself that he’s a modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a $10 bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking: sooooo JV—cracks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...third-generation treasure hunter searching for the greatest treasure the world has ever known, ever. Nicholas Cage, who seems to have convinced himself that he’s a modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a ten-dollar bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking: sooooo JV?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

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