Word: stints
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After a brief stint at Radcliffe College as a cook, and later as a security guard, Jones joined the police department at Harvard in 1963, rising to the position of sergeant in the late 1970s, family members said...
...that one doesn't count. (Making a film with indie icons like the Coen brothers--or with Charlie Kaufman, as Jim Carrey did for the similarly low-grossing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind--is considered image-polishing pro bono work for a big star, like an off-Broadway stint or a benefit concert...
...biggest change has been in Tweedy. The haggard despair shown in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart has been replaced by something approaching salubrity. Since his stint in rehab, he has lost weight, given up caffeine and shaken the migraines. "He looks more fit and together now," says John Stirratt, the band's bassist. "It's hard for me to tell because I see him a lot, but people tell me he looks like he's 25 again...
...Shall Have No Dominion" and "When All My Five and Country Senses See." After that he survived largely by playing the role of the errant romantic genius, though he did manage to produce Under Milk Wood, his enduringly popular play for voices, in his last years. After a teenage stint on a newspaper in his native Wales, the only paid work he found was giving talks on BBC radio, writing film scripts during World War II and going on his ruinous tours. But what a performer he was. In person he could be hilariously entertaining, at least until he vomited...
...every spare soldier" to send to Iraq. It took formal action last week to stretch its troop strength as far as possible. According to the so-called stop-loss order, soldiers will be kept in uniform for an extra three months before and after their units' one-year stint in Iraq or Afghanistan. By unilaterally extending their enlistments by as much as 18 months, the policy will force tens of thousands of soldiers to put personal plans on hold. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry calls it a "back-door draft...