Word: rugs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When [Lebowski, played by Jeff Bridges] mentions that his rug really held the room together...
...hypocritical and smug," for boasting that they repair rather than replace their vacuum cleaners. "If you were really concerned about curtailing runaway consumerism, you'd ditch your broken vacuum cleaners for a broom," wrote one purist. But Kesel counters that she can't get cat hair off her rug with a broom. "People say we don't take it far enough," she muses. "But I'm like, whoa, in American consumer culture, any step is positive." And in the self-denial department, those are soothing words...
...consistently said that the only way to deal with Pyongyang was to engage the regime and provide it with incentives such as food aid and other economic goodies to prevent it from taking such provocative steps as testing a nuclear device. "Then, Kim Jung-il pulled the rug out from under [China's President] Hu Jintao," Lieberthal says...
...mind, the second thing is the scene in “The Big Lebowski” when the Dude is taken to the garden party of porn king Jackie Treehorn. In this case, we are the Dude, the Clipse are those two Treehorn enforcers who pissed on our rug and boss us around, Slim Thug is the totally out-of-place naked woman on the trampoline, and “Skateboard P” is Treehorn himself. Like Treehorn’s party, the video has that unmistakable “weird cult” subtext going on?...
Then comes October: football season and playoff time, an awkward coexistence. October throws baseball under the rug for days-long stretches, and then FOX throws baseball at your face. Jeanne Zelasko, Kevin Kennedy, and Ken Rosenthal are the network’s on-air talents. Tim McCarver still broadcasts games. And they wonder why ratings are down...