Word: errand
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Thirty-five smart people from New York City have flown down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...
needed for the survival of his industry. When he broke from GM and made his errand into the wilderness, he could be expected to return with the answer to a dealership's prayers...
...year-after-year involvement in the festival is only partially explicable by the town's lack of night life. The volunteers, from the mostly middle-aged women who do the men's makeup (their yellow T shirts read: WE KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT) to the lowliest errand boys, are plainly basking in the glory of Laguna's premiere event. Says Judy Stanton, 46, who for 13 years has rushed 50 miles from her nursing job in Downey to take part in the pageant: "I never get sick of it. There are new pictures every year...
...beat out all male rivals for the Lampoon's presidency, to become the first woman to achieve that position in the organization's 105-year history. The deciding factors, says a Lampoon staffer: "Consummate social skills and great legs." Says Lisa, who once worked as an errand girl for her father: "I expect my work here will be a lot more rewarding than carrying coffee around for the Muppets...
LAST SUMMER the employees of the office where Susan worked asked her to get them frozen yogurt when she went on an errand. Knowing that frozen yogurt was her particular dieting downfall, Susan resolved not to have any, until she got to the store and discovered that three of her favorite flavors were in stock...