Word: couchful
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...footwear and in their size 8-1/2 feet. Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton-educated attorney, short and kind of frumpy. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is her party-animal kid sister, embarrassingly idiotic yet able to seduce any man she targets. Maggie bums off of Rose’s couch and they establish a somewhat reciprocal, primarily parasitical, relationship, in which Maggie updates Rose on the latest fashions (“1994 called—it wants its scrunchie back”) in return for unauthorized loans from Maggie’s vast shoe collection...
...dead still, in shock and horror. Tom Cruise jumped up on Oprah Winfrey’s neutral-toned couch and rhapsodized about Katie Holmes, shouting, “I’m in love! I’m in love!” Mocking Cruise at this point was like kicking a sleeping dog. Nevertheless, I turned to my friend. “He’s deranged and his career is over,” I said...
...Jimmy has the look of a stereotypical Harvard student, with his backpack and button-down. He’s the kid you see milling about in your dining hall or talking in a section. He looked like the last person you’d expect to jump on a couch on national television, screaming Katie Holmes’ praises. We found out that we both like Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. We found out that we have many mutual friends, one of whom told me to speak with Jimmy after I went to the Church...
...hence the particular character of Harvardians seeking sports careers. The myth of the lazy, Doritos-chawing couch potato has long been replaced by the reality of the well-educated, successful, and unabashed fanatic...
...decided to rent “I [heart] Huckabees,” because Rebecca teaches philosophy and heard that it was a philosophical comedy. We picked up a sandwich and salad at Au Bon Pain, and a six-pack at Cardullo’s, and curled up on the couch to watch the movie. It was bad—neither philosophical nor funny— but that didn’t spoil the magic of the evening...