Word: thanklessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found fame on the MTV game show Singled Out and obscurity on the NBC sitcom Jenny. She met Asher, a director, on the set of her new film, Diamonds. Manzella will continue to serve as her manager, but maybe someone should ask him: Why hang on to such a thankless job after losing the perks...
Enough with the Ken Starr bashing! Starr was given a difficult and thankless job: he had to uncover the misdeeds of an elusive foe. Considering the power of the President, it is doubtful that a less determined person would have been able to force Slick Willie to confess. Obviously the process has been disruptive and costly, but what would Americans have had Starr do? If we don't want to know when politicians break the law or commit immoral acts, then we'd better get rid of the special-prosecutor law. Otherwise, let's not shoot the messenger just because...
Bill Clinton must really have it in for Janet Reno. Why else would the President saddle the Attorney General with the thankless task of reviewing "new evidence" presented by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. about his assassination 30 years ago? The King family claims that convicted assassin James Earl Ray, who died last week, was just a fall guy caught up in a sweeping conspiracy that included then President Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. Edgar Hoover, several army units, organized crime figures, the owner of a Memphis diner and, one presumes, space aliens. Talk about...
...will live as a cynosure. Her every public act will cause comment, her chance remarks will raise controversy, and the way she raises her children will bring criticism. Whether she wants to or not, she will influence taste and style. Hers will be a difficult, demanding and often thankless role, and no one knows it better than Jackie. "I feel as though I had just turned into a piece of public property," she said recently. "It's really frightening to lose your anonymity at 31." Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's struggle to maintain her own separate and private identity has been...
There's a reason marketing geniuses long ago termed them "diaries"-beyond the daily block of hourly entries, of section meetings, meals, errands and miscellaneous thankless tasks, a year unfolds as effortlessly as pages turned by the wind...