Word: washere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are a lot of demands just trying to take care of the everyday needs of the family," says Summer, who has several older half-siblings. "Even my mom and I going to the laundry--we don't have a washer and dryer, we don't have a car--we'd walk like eight blocks taking big, heavy bags of laundry. That would take the whole...
...soon as she graduates, Carter plans to campacross country with her mother and Aunt Beckyuntil she reaches San Francisco, where she willstart a new life. Although Carter says Harvard washer biggest ambition (And that she has no ambitionbeyond here), Bolton says she expects to SeeCarter's novels on the shelves of HarvardBookstore...
...world we live in, where multimillion-dollar productions rarely find funding without a star's name on the marquee, it is hard to begrudge Broderick the part. To the role of J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, he brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies like Brighton Beach Memoirs to the Civil War epic film Glory. As an actor, Broderick has a gift that is almost impossible to fabricate: an unforced freshness...
Matthew Broderick may have landed the lead in Broadway's buoyant revival of the 1961 musical on name recognition alone, but it's hard to begrudge him the part. As J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, Broderick "brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies to the Civil War epic film Glory," says TIME contributor Brad Leithauser. As satire goes, Leithauser adds, director Des McAnuff's amiable version "lacks even some of the mild bite...
...laundry incident. Koffler recounts, "This guy walked into the laundry room with an intense look like he was on some kind of mission. I said hello, but he didn't respond. He placed his laundry on the other side of the room, put some quarters and detergent in a washer, and waited until water filled the washer to the top. Then he went all the way back to his basket, took one sock, walked all the way back to the washer, tossed the sock basketball-style into the filled washer, and vigorously pushed it down into the water...