Word: sharked
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...downsized; on Fox's Brothers, an NFL star goes broke; and on the same network's Sons of Tucson, a banker goes to jail for corporate crimes. (In Hollywood, they call that wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual small business each week will vote on which one of them should be laid off; on CBS's Undercover Boss, execs take on dirty jobs in their own companies. The History channel, meanwhile, announced a reality series about...
...Don’t tell anyone what it is. Just send out a Facebook invitation to everyone you know, including that girl from freshman year in Lionel who you never talked to after puking while hooking up. 9. Live every week like it’s shark week for one week. 10. Commit a crime, and then watch cops, and then watch yourself on cops. Meta. 11. Walk around to your classes all day wearing a Batman suit. When asked why you are wearing it, simply respond by saying, “I’m doing thesis research...
...Move” is—anticlimactically—a mild pulp pastiche that doesn’t even seem to rise to its own expectations.The plot is appropriately simple: Jimmy Luntz is a barbershop singer with a gambling addiction and an outstanding debt to a small-time loan shark. The supply of clichés at work throughout the novel’s first pages practically spell out the remainder of the story—a sultry, femme fatale of a love interest; a cross-country chase; a stoic, streetwise henchman looking to collect Luntz’s head...
...riptide while bodysurfing near San Francisco's Ocean Beach on April 12 at 48, his close friend Harrod Blank remarked that Kennedy's works were, "ironically, inspired by the sea." So it was true to form that Kennedy dubbed his first creation--originally a Nissan Sentra--Ripper the Friendly Shark. He equipped the working car with a toothy jaw and a tail that swished...
Kennedy quit his job and headed to the Bay Area. Using his friendly shark as a mobile billboard, he earned a number of commissioned projects, creating everything from the "Topsy-Turvy" school bus for Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream (made to protest military spending) to a giant whale for Nevada's 2001 Burning Man festival. All the while, he continued to drive his trusty Ripper up and down the roads of Northern California with sharklike restlessness...