Word: squanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film runs glumly along, episode after episode, with no plot whatsoever. Frank's siblings die at the rate of about one every ten minutes, but the only emotion these deaths manage to evoke is indifference. Along the way the film manages to completely squander Emily Watson as Angela. She makes a valiant effort to portray Angela as a tough woman who's not too proud to beg for her children, but wasted are her sharp, delicate eyes and wonderfully expressive mouth. In fact, the occasional, accidental spurts of beautiful acting she is allowed only serve to frustrate the viewer even...
...Clinton was standing there with the veto pen in his hand," he says. "He and the Democrats were able to talk people out of a big tax cut before it ever got started." This year, say the polls, the suspicion is that the cut would favor the rich and squander the surplus. Next year? Voters ought to be surprised if there?s still a surplus to fight over...
...billion.) That may explain why some Bush advisers last week played down the endorsement's significance. "Can you imagine the Republican front runner not endorsing a tax cut passed by a Republican Congress?" asked one. But Al Gore wasted no time slagging the Texas Governor. "You can't squander the surplus and keep our economy strong," Gore said Friday. "You can't have your cake...
...City, of operagoers and those who couldn't be bothered with the subway. For a college student, they represented the ultimate in frivolous but wonderful luxury, up there with flying first class or getting an hour-long massage--well, almost. Still, what typical undergraduate really has ten bucks to squander on a cab when the exact same trip by metro is one-fifth the cost...
...opera-goers and those who couldn't be bothered with the subway. For a college student, they represented the ultimate in frivolous but wonderful luxury, up there with flying first class or getting an hour-long massage--well, almost. Still, what typical undergraduate really has ten bucks to squander on a cab when the exact same trip by metro is one-fifth the cost...