Word: rachel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ball well from the start,” said Williamson, “but about the second inning we really started putting them in the gaps, and in the third we were able to push a couple of runs across and then keep the bases loaded for Rachel...
...with an 8-3 victory of their own at No. 3, while Bergman and Lingman—who remain ranked No. 18 nationally despite seeing limited action on the court together due to injuries—encountered stiff resistance at the top of the ladder in Shelah Chao and Rachel Shweky after seizing a 3-0 lead, but, with the point already won, finished the pairs shutout...
...Friends episode "The One Where No One Proposes"--in which Rachel Green has had Ross Geller's baby after a one-night stand--Ross's father gazes at the tiny girl in the hospital. "My first grandchild," he purrs. "What about Ben?" asks Ross, referring to his son by his lesbian ex-wife, born in the first season. "Well, of course Ben," Mr. Geller covers up. "I meant my first granddaughter...
...parents. Phoebe's mom (not, we later learn, her biological mother) committed suicide, and her dad ran out. When Chandler was 9, his parents announced their divorce at Thanksgiving--Dad, it turned out, was a cross-dresser, played by Kathleen Turner. Joey discovered his father was having an affair. Rachel's mom left her dad, inspired by Rachel's jilting her fiance at the altar...
...characters are approaching something like traditional happy endings: Phoebe married, Chandler and Monica becoming parents, Ross and Rachel headed for whatever closure the writers have devised, Joey going west for the Valhalla of spin-off-dom. Still, what a weird route they took. Friends may not have been as artistically great as NBC says, but it may have been more important than the show itself seemed to believe. If, as the headlines keep screaming, the culture war is not over, for half an hour a week over 10 years, we were able to forget it existed. What else are friends...