Word: soured
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...former associate who was familiar with his personal finances. "He never saved money. He lived check to check." In one of his 2003 e-mails to Scanlon, Abramoff even sounded desperate: "Mike!!! I need the money TODAY! I AM BOUNCING CHECKS!!!" Indeed, it was a business deal gone sour that might have finally forced his guilty plea in the Washington corruption case. He was scheduled this week to go on trial in Florida on charges that he and a business partner, Adam Kidan, falsified a loan guarantee as part of a $147.5 million deal to buy a fleet of casino...
...good ship, and a greater joy to have the ship's belly fat with other men's silver. It is the Viking joy ..." Such are the pleasures animating this big-bellied, bushy-bearded tale of 9th century England. Our hero is Uhtred, a good-hearted lout with a pleasantly sour disposition; he's like a 9th century Han Solo. As an English nobleman who was raised by the invading Danes but whose fate is to fight against them (with his deadly sword Serpent-Breath!), he endows the book with an unexpectedly complex, thoughtful soul...
...law’s fiancée, Nola, with whom Chris first exchanges some rain-soaked afternoon delight, with subsequent forays into massage oils and standard-grade kink. The film then evolves into a meditative psychological thriller that wears its psychoses on its sleeve. The affair inevitably turns sour over broken promises and long, drawn-out arguments where both Nola and Chris reveal their own (and maybe Allen’s) neuroses. The motif that resonates throughout “Match Point” is the concept of luck, starting from Chris’s initial voiceover...
...stories because it was fun and new and I sort of liked seeing my name in print, even if I didn’t read back over my articles. By the time I became an elected editor, worthy of the Crimson Staff Writer byline, I had already grown slightly sour on the whole experience. I didn’t quite jive with the daily rush of the newsroom, didn’t quite click with the legions of older editors. “Who are these crazy people?” I used to think...
...attended the off-the-record study group. In his speech, he likened an “egocentric band”—with a lead singer who cares only about himself—to an authoritarian regime, the students said. The study group ended on an amusing but sour note when a Parrot Head from the audience requested that Buffett play a song. When Buffett tried to tune the fan’s child-sized guitar, one of the strings snapped. “We were all sad,” says Daren S. Stanaway...