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...atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...
...Stallone wants to save himself. His forays into farce (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) and romance (remember Rhinestone?) were low-level disasters. His recent action films have been box-office duds at home, though usually robust moneymakers abroad; last year's Daylight earned only $33 million in North America but $120 million elsewhere, making Sly a pricey export commodity. "He epitomizes the state our industry is in," says Daylight director Rob Cohen. "With Rocky he proved a $1 million film could be a big hit. Now we want to make movies for the global market...
...both of these eateries--housed in soon-to-be-developed buildings--may serve their last meals in the next few months, as renovation costs push rents higher than the mom-and-pops of the Square can afford...
...game, Boise: My parents pay $8 a ticket for us to sit in the box seats overlooking first base. My mom has to sit in the next box with a bar separating us...it's only three seats across. We root for the home Hawks against the Yakima Bears...
Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on the board. We clap...