Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...losing streak seems to have taken its toll on at least some of the players. Several team members uttered expletives after the match concluded, and a couple others like senior Jamie Ames threw his helmet and stick down in frustration...
...eyes and endless limbs; they are becoming diversified corporations. "I am my own business," proclaims Campbell. "I used to fly to a country for a day and do another shoot somewhere else the next, but I don't do that as often as I used to. It takes a toll. I'm realizing that, now that I'm 24." Last Friday Campbell entered the presumably less stressful restaurant business. She and partners Claudia Schiffer and Elle MacPherson (who has landed a multipicture deal with Miramax) were on hand for the much-ballyhooed opening of their new Fashion Cafe...
...fire, forcing some 7,000 people to flee for their safety. Army officers said the rebels were trying to link up with reinforcements from an mnlf camp at Siocon, in the adjoining province. The Abu Sayyaf had forced civilians to bury at least 14 of their dead fighters. The toll on the other side: five hostages and three soldiers...
...resulting drive was terrifying and endless. I was forced to drive over terrain and through obstacles that I had never tackled before. I drove through a toll booth and clumsily made change with the attendant, who was not amused by my awkwardness in maneuvering the car so our hands could meet, I drove through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and tried to forget that I absolutely detest tunnels. I then drove over the Verrezano Narrows Bridge. Immortalized in Saturday Night Fever, one of my favorite films, the Verrezano is the world's longest suspension bridge. And I drove over it, reaching...
Much of Life After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...