Word: resentfully
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...prep," says Lauren with a mournful look. "People make fun of you for being one," Katie explains. "My mom says they're just jealous and to ignore them, so that's what I try to do." But Lauren is hurt by the attitude of old friends who now resent her devotion to the sport. "I just tell my friends, 'O.K., like, I can't just give it up,'" says Lauren...
...certainly is no super-parent: his children, the detached teenager Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and the snarky Rachel (Dakota Fanning) both seem to resent and distrust him, even as airplanes fall from the sky and neighbors get vaporized with lasers. Apparently it’s hard to appease the wrath of bratty children. “War of the Worlds” ultimately becomes the story of the reconciliation between parent and children; everything else is just trappings...
...results are often so tempting that even Julia Child, the reigning resident French chef, is being swept up in the tide of Americana. Says Child of a resent experiment with corn-bread sticks: "Well, they're just delicious. I also did abalone burgers, and I use soy sauce now, which I never used to. Also Chinese black beans, Tabasco sauce and an occasional chili pepper. It has freed me." As American chefs begin to surpass French counterparts as status symbols, many restaurateurs snap up baby-faced graduates such professional cooking schools as the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A.) Hyde Park...
...fact that so many demonstrators showed up despite the official pressure is a sign that campus discontent in Peking goes beyond anti-Japanese sentiments. Many students resent the fact that the benefits of Deng's reformist economic policies have gone to members of a Chinese elite that includes the well-connected children of Communist officials. The favored youth have a far better chance than most of getting good jobs or traveling abroad after graduation. Faced with a steep rise in the cost of living as a result of the reforms, many students are finding their already spartan daily lives less...
...black American, I have grown to resent Jesse Jackson's influence in this country [PRESS, April 14]. His causes are no more than stunts to gain publicity for himself, and his crusade against CBS in Chicago is an example. Co-Anchorman Harry Porterfield left CBS for a more lucrative position. He was not forced out. And by claiming Jonathan Rodgers was hired as the new manager of WBBM because of his color, Jackson undercuts an achievement by a black man. Brian Johnson New York City Wallace's Farewell...