Word: rude
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...mirrors, the piped-in Godfather theme. The walls bear snapshots of movie stars visiting the place, among them Johnny Depp (Donnie Brasco), Hugh Grant (Mickey Blue Eyes) and James Caan (The Godfather). At a round table sit five men--sturdy, with slick hair and crumpled suits--having a good rude time as two other men in velour sweatsuits, drivers or bodyguards probably, sit at a subsidiary table. They turn quiet and suspicious when a new couple, strangers, is seated across the room, then return to their powwow. On the ceiling above the men are two metal boxes with rubber knobs...
...have to act it out. I had to do a scene with another girl, really tough, who played a shop clerk. I was supposed to be trying to return something. Showing off her acting abilities, she screamed at me that I couldn't return it. She was so rude to me that I burst into tears. I was so naive. I really believed I was trying to return this thing and she wouldn't let me. So I cried and cried until the teacher said, 'All right, go take a rest.'" In fact, the teachers were impressed, "Because in China...
...flyer about a cultural/religious/political rally/march/festival/publication that you couldn’t care less about, wait until you’re out of viewing-range to crumple it up and throw it in a trash can. Tossing it under the table you got it from might be considered a bit rude...
FROM THE TIME ARCHIVE "Get Martha on the Phone." Martha Stewart was rude and dismissive. Did she break...
...complained of digestive problems. "It's a tough life," says Shruti Kaushik, 21, an IBM call-center employee. Kaushik took the job seven months ago "to make some easy money," about $160 a month. But the credit-collection work isn't easy. "Things get monotonous; there are rude customers," she says. Combine those factors with the 10-to 12-hour night shifts that Indian IT workers pull so they can stay in synch with U.S. daytime hours--India is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time--and "it reduces life to a vacuum," says Bhagat. "Where's the time...