Word: chores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bailout. Thanks to his talent and good luck (he and Clinton became friends in college), Altman is now Lloyd Bentsen's understudy. He is also acting head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, an assignment he accepted to fill a temporary vacancy in the RTC's chairmanship. This is the chore that has sullied...
...regard it as a penance, a chore," saysProfessor of History David G. Black bourn, who isnow teaching History 1333: "European History1848...
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...