Word: pint
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Providing that chance is the job of the half-pint, in a movie so desperately maneuvered that it's possibly unfair to blame Danson for defending himself against it. Culkin plays Timmy, the son whom widowed Ray hasn't seen for three years, and he arrives just as his dad and two confederates are about to rob a coin collection. This they manage with a cleverness that belies their alleged incompetence. But the boy steals the loot, and will give it back only if Ray will act the good father for a week -- you know, ball games, amusement parks, miniature...
With that, Ms. Werner grasped us firmly by the ear and showed us the door. That evening, as we sipped our lonely pint in the neighborhood pub, we reflected that perhaps a career in journalism was not for us. On the other hand, we didn't know what was. How we envied the Ms. Werners of the world, who could jet off to Aruba whenever they felt sulky...
Another government agent enters the store cracking jokes about how--in light of the temperatures--he is going to purchase a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream...
Toomey said the cider has one drawback: its price. "We don't pour as much hard cider to students as we do beer because the cider is pretty expensive," he said. "$3.50 a pint...
Wait a minute. Except for Jurassic Park, whose PG-13 rating is meant to scare off the very young, these are all what used to be called adult movies. Wasn't this supposed to be the Summer of Boys? Weren't the studios primed for pint-size blockbusters about 12-year-old emotional overachievers? Well, yes -- and the kids are at the movies too. Free Willy (a boy and his whale) has struck a heart chord; this inexpensive tearjerker will earn about $80 million. Rookie of the Year (a boy and his fastball) and Dennis the Menace...