Word: chores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Piecing all those together is quite a chore for a novel that also wants to be a religious allegory, a comedy of bad manners and a portrait of the interior life at a time when TV ads clog the stream of consciousness like shimmering dead fish. Long stretches where the laughs come hard are followed by sudden bloomings of comic rhapsody. This wayward frolic is a bit like Oscar's car. Sometimes you could swear it was stone dead -- until it starts up and runs right over...
...Next question." "Which is your favorite role?" queried a student. Jones snapped back, "I don't play favorites. Next question." "What drew you to this role?" was the follow up. "Oliver [Stone] asked me to, and I needed the work." It seemed as if responding was becoming a chore for Jones as his tone conveyed condescension and frustration. But at the champagne reception that followed, he was gracious and patient as he autographed programs for, took photographs with, spoke to and even hugged the crowd of adoring, over-indulgent fans...
MARC COHEN, A HOMEOWNER IN Woodland Hills, California, has a new annual chore. For the past three years in a row, he has refinanced his family's five- bedroom house. "My wife says, 'You must be kidding -- you're doing it again?' " says Cohen, a Merrill Lynch vice president. "It's a pain to do it, but for three weeks of aggravation, you get years of savings on the interest." For his trouble, Cohen now enjoys a 15-year mortgage fixed at 6 3/ 4%, down from the 11 1/2% adjustable-rate loan he originally took...
...rate during exercise should be 80% of the heart's maximum capacity; in 1980 that goal fell to 70%, then 60% in 1986. Last year it was a modest 50%. Says Linda Webb, a Weight Watchers spokeswoman: "The problem in the 1980s was that exercise was ! seen as a chore, beyond the norm. Now we recognize that all we have to do is normal things like walking, but just do it a little faster. It's the difference between a craze and common sense...
Watching the Crimson has become a chore. There's Harvard vs. Yale. Big game. So the fans come flocking. Harvard for one day in the year feels like a Big Ten school...