Word: sacking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Writer Helaine Olen, in a New York Times article on July 17, caused a Web-wide stir when she described firing her nanny Tessy for blogging about the family. The Web consensus? Olen was wrong to sack the nanny--ATRIOS dubbed the essayist "wanker of the week"--and downright depraved for airing her dirty laundry in the pages of the Gray Lady. Opinion was divided on whether Tessy made a mistake by confessing the blogging to her employer. The nanny fired back with a 3,200-word rebuttal on her site, INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DOUBLE, then announced that she would...
...carpet itself was a shocking eddy of bejeweled humanity. Although the athletes and famous guests are separated from regular ticket-holders by a velvet rope, there wasn’t much preventing me from trying to sack Peyton Manning if I wanted to. Or if I thought I could bring him down...
...Sprouts in a Sack Think of it as planting for dirt dummies. Just drop the enclosed seeds into the bag's soil, and water gently. Voil?! An instant kitchen herb garden, with your choice of parsley, oregano and basil; $8 from wishingfish.com...
...crazy-seductress mother (“Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman”’s Jane Seymour) playing sexy in a shot-by-shot homage to The Graduate is only amusing in its absurdity. Add to this the crazy-seducer homosexual brother and the already insane Gloria and Sack, and the fun begins to pale...
Meanwhile, Sack has every evil boyfriend cliché in the rom-com oeuvre. Being unstable and borderline abusive certainly isn’t enough for us to root against him, so we better make sure we throw in “sleeps with lots of other woman,” and “going to make Claire quit working and become a housewife” into...