Word: couchful
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...Lunch patrons make the most of their privacy. Down the hall from Wong, a middle-aged couple canoodled on their room's black pleather couch. In another room, two girls in prim white school uniforms and navy cardigans sang earnestly between slurps of udon, their eyes glued to the screen. High school boys with spiky hair whooped and crooned...
That trend seems likely to continue. Another survey, by employee-benefits experts Towers Perrin, says that among employers who don't yet have programs in place, 33% plan to start one and 23% say they will introduce or increase financial rewards for their employees who get off the couch and snack on peaches instead of pizza. Smart. Notes the Watson Wyatt-NBGH study: "Companies that offer financial incentives report significantly higher participation in wellness programs." It's the old adage in action: What gets rewarded gets done...
...keep running after the battery's died. She swallows each drink as if it contains an acid that will cauterize what wounds her inside; or she could be embracing the habit because it brings on oblivion. Half the time she doesn't know the owner of the car or couch where she's been sleeping off her latest stupor. It might be her recovering-alcoholic friend Mitch (Saul Rubinek), who keeps trying to straighten her out. Or it might be her neighbor Elena (Kate del Castillo), who has hatched a goofy plan to retrieve her estranged son Tom (Aidan Gould...
...profound really, what Jarmusch is doing. Oh wait, here she comes again. Still naked. And Lone Man is still not going for it, because he doesn't do sex while he's working. But he's sitting next to her on the couch. And absolutely every human being in the theater, having absorbed the profundity of the Nude's nudity, is now admiring her admirable breasts. Her third scene includes some wardrobe, namely a clear plastic raincoat, which has to be meaningful. Finally, she puts on a fuzzy sweater, but still no pants, which tends to draw the eye downward...
...many shots--which the Navy SEAL snipers who rescued him managed to do from the swaying fantail of a destroyer 75 ft. (about 25 m) away. It was just "a day at the office" for the élite fighting force, as author and Vietnam-era SEAL Dick Couch said...