Word: bottomlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...multichannel dotcoms cheerily dip into bottomless parent-company purses, e-tailers that used to burn cash like a yuletide log have turned into Scrooges--slashing costs, scanning the bottom line and praying fervently for a Christmas Future. Sites such as eToys, whose stock has dropped 94% in a year, openly admit they will need cash transfusions by the end of 2001. "We need one more round of financing to break even," says Toby Lenk, founder of eToys. That's why grabbing an impressive chunk of the estimated $12 billion being spent online this November and December is "absolutely critical," adds...
...mini sundae. Perfectly priced ($2) and sized for my post-Paris plumpness, the mini sundae was the perfect excuse to extend a lazy evening. The chocolate pudding ice cream has a depth of flavor I dare to call orgasmic and a gooey texture that makes the dixie cup seem bottomless. The smudge of fresh whipped cream doesn't last as long as it should, but the slightly sour flavor complements the sweetness of the ice cream and hot fudge--you wouldn't want one without the other...
...What if the infant is sickly and seems likely to languish no matter how well it's looked after? Humans agonize over these situations, but mothers throughout the animal kingdom show a surprising willingness to abandon or even kill such luckless young rather than pour energy down a bottomless reproductive well...
...dark hole." Having promised Juan Miguel two weeks earlier that she would return his son quickly, Reno was now looking at months of legal wrangling and no guarantee that Elian would ever be reunited with his father, much less his homeland. By Thursday, White House dismay with Reno's bottomless patience was quietly rising, and so that afternoon, returning on Air Force One from a memorial marking the fifth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Reno huddled for 45 minutes with Bill Clinton and two aides to change course...
...every other way, though, Get Happy is an exemplary attempt to answer the unanswerable question: Why could she never plug the jagged hole in her heart? Much of her appeal lies in our inability to explain away her bottomless neediness. "You can write down everything Lana Turner ever thought and felt and meant, and then put the pencil down," claimed Garland amour Joe Mankiewicz (the director and screenwriter of All About Eve). "That's it, a closed book. But I don't think anybody's going to close the book on Judy Garland." Not even Gerald Clarke--but he comes...