Word: rude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tragedy,” he says. “I sort of had a quick, rude awakening...
Rather than cutting straight to filmmaking, Johnson spent his first year studying photography. He describes the “terribly rude awakening” of laying out all his semester’s photographs in front of his professor, only to have the professor trash every last one of them. Johnson went back to work, taking a thousand photographs over the last three weeks of the semester and ending up with ten he considered usable...
...really care about my girlfriend a lot and love spending time with her, but when she kisses me, she slobbers everywhere. How can I improve her kissing abilities? Is it rude to tell her how I feel? What...
...Kowloon side, is now just about 1 km wide?shorter than the span of New York's George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Visitors to Hong Kong who arrive in town expecting an easily accessible, vibrant waterfront like the ones in Sydney or Baltimore are in for a rude surprise: most of Hong Kong's shoreline is inaccessibly hidden behind skyscrapers, parking lots, utilities and highways. "I can't get a beer [on the waterfront]," says Paul Zimmerman, an executive at a local venture-capital firm who in 2002 founded Designing Hong Kong Harbour to encourage new thinking...
Second surprise: Dragons' Den isn't a U.S. show. Started in Japan, it has become a prime-time hit in Britain, not known for entrepreneurial zeal or money obsession. That, of course, is changing. The Brits are demonstrating that they can be as avaricious and rude as any Yanks. The VCs, who include Doug Richard, an American expat, even fight with one another. "You've just completely been a sly little s___," one excoriated another after getting burned...