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...musical verve. Nearly every film, from Oliver & Company (1988) to The Lion King (1994), outgrossed its predecessor by 40% to 50%. The Lion King, which Daly calls "the Star Wars of animation," earned about the same in domestic theaters as Forrest Gump did the same year. But that's chump change for animation. Toss in the video market, the merchandise and CD sales, and The Lion King has so far generated an estimated $1 billion--in profits...
...course, a grand isn't chump change for most people in society, but it's a lot better than the good ol' monopoly pricing we've seen in the PC's lifetime. And experts predict that prices could plummet again soon, perhaps to the $500 point in a matter of years. Whatever you think of Microsoft and Intel's hegemony over the old market, wish the new chip-makers luck; cheaper computers are in everyone's interest...
...seems that in the land of artifice, only a chump would accept sorrow at face value. It's soft to let the dead rest in peace for a few days and naive not to administer the equivalent of a Breathalyzer for grief. The President often exhibits an overabundance of emotion. But in any other place, a person would be granted a presumption of sincerity if a dear friend and indispensable colleague had finally met a mountain he couldn't move...
That Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier both donned blackface in famous film versions doesn't mean no one else should try. Parker had the radical idea to cast a black man as Othello, and Laurence Fishburne brings an outsider's dignity to the role of Shakespeare's noblest chump. Irene Jacob is a lovely, sallow Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh--looking bloated and rheumy, slithering snakelike on rooftops, whispering his venomous gossip as if it's his last confession--makes a fine Iago, a demi-devil working his cool wit to destroy those he might have loved...
...Hong, who used to work at Taco Bell, is no chump. "I know Taco Bell's president is not named Bell," she says. Hong was a victim of the latest hot prank on the Internet: "FakeMail," a free service that lets fun-loving correspondents send E-mail that looks as if it is from anyone they choose -- Bill Bell, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates or even...