Word: hypochondriac
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...Blake (Bruce Willis) is the hard guy. He proves this in Bandits' first minutes by stealing a concrete-mixing truck and using it to crash out of the Oregon state pen. Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) thinks he's a smart guy but is actually a hilarious hypochondriac. Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett) is a homemaker driven mad by her husband's solipsistic indifference. Very quickly they constitute themselves as "the Sleepover Bandits." Their m.o. is to invade the home of a small-town bank manager at night, take the family hostage and, bickering all the way, waltz into the vault...
Thanks to a shortage of alternatives, every day is a potential "Take Your Sick Child to Work Day." Plenty of employers endorse the practice or look the other way, despite the obvious drawbacks: the lack of pillows and blankies, the hypochondriac in the next office, the difficulty of actually getting anything done. But a handful of companies practicing enlightened self-interest are taking the lead in covering all or part of the cost of other options, including in-home care, stand-alone facilities and day-care centers with adjacent infirmaries. And while such care can be notoriously expensive, the payoffs...
Wayne Knight brings out the hypochondriac in me. You know Knight. He played the obnoxious mailman on Seinfeld, and is Sally's often clueless lover on Third Rock from the Sun. Lately he's been personifying influenza in those commercials for the antiviral drug Relenza. When I see him barging into a hapless woman's home, ready to take up residence, I could swear I'm developing a sore throat. Then when he plops down between the woman and her husband, I start getting that achy feeling in my joints and back. I especially love his sneering crack about soup...