Word: mope
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...singing in a rock group - if you?re young and rich and famous and the crowd is screaming love at you, and if your overnight shift is taking the favors of some beautiful stranger waiting at the stage door - honestly, what do you have to mope about? The Beatles, in the first flush of their fame (when they wore matching suits), got it right. They played a song, the girls squealed, the boys smiled. Then the Rolling Stones came along and made sexual menace the new code of behavior. With Bob Dylan, nobody was a singer any more; now they...
...Stewart may be able to employ some of her homemaking skills. She could be put on food service or groundskeeping. "I think she'll make the five months in prison a major life experience," says society columnist Dominick Dunne, a friend. "She's not going to sit and mope for five months. I bet she leaves that prison a very popular woman...
...It’s difficult to set that aside, your own personal problems, and just be a part of the team,” Ogbechie said at the beginning of the season. “It wouldn’t make sense for me to mope around and act like it was the end of the world. So I try to do my best...
...spent at Epcot, and for those who haven?t been there in a while, I have this happy news to report: It?s not just science and culture any more. Somebody whispered in Epcot?s ear along the way, ?Rides. It?s the rides, you mope. The folks - they like rides.? Now you?ve got hyper-exciting attractions like ?Test Track? and especially this year?s ?Mission: SPACE,? as well as 3-D movies (?Honey, I Shrunk the Audience?) and bio-medical thrill rides (?Body Wars...
Enough with swashbuckling. In Secret Window, due in April, Pirate of the Caribbean JOHNNY DEPP returns to what he does best--a good mope. Depp plays a depressed writer suffering through a divorce and accused of plagiarism by a creepy farmer (John Turturro). "One of the keys to [Depp's] character is his degree of bed head," says David Koepp, writer and director of the Stephen King adaptation. It's nice to see a guy get back to his (unbleached) roots...