Word: thanklessness
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...thankless role, Mulroney does his same ordinary guy schtick played out in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “The Wedding Date.” His relationship with Meredith is a bleak picture of yuppie romance. Mulroney’s allegedly playful smirk and his unfortunate habit of talking out of one side of his mouth gets old quickly...
...nutrient-filled, and thankfully far more practical than the rest of FM’s board. Responsible for working with content and photo, they held scales like Justice and spun beauty like Athena. Sometimes, they raged like Mars, like when we wanted all-text pages. After they did their thankless work, we wanted to stare at FM like we were Narcissus...
...can’t say I’m a big fan of those books. It was wonderful to see film on that scale. The production designer I was working for was amazing. The director was great and full of ideas. But all of it is a pretty thankless task. The pleasure of doing “MirrorMask” was there were no levels you had to get through. It was a personal project. I thought of something and it was on the screen the next...
...discovered at his ease, enjoying the sweet rewards of his pugilistic toil, no clouds on his scar tissue. There then lumbers into sight a giant threat not just to his well-being but to all that he--we--holds dear. Yes, literally a giant. Replacing Mr. T in this thankless role is a humongous Soviet called Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Behind this wild bull of the steppes, a totalitarian state has mobilized all its technological wizardry (including, it is hinted, steroids) in order to claim not merely a world championship but the superiority of its system over that of the decadent...
...gave up a lifetime appointment as a federal judge to take Washington's most thankless job, Director of Homeland Security. But Michael Chertoff, 51, has big plans to streamline the department, allocating aid for states more wisely and informing the public of possible threats without alarming them. He sat down with TIME's Brian Bennett for his first extensive interview...