Word: extras
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Oprah, Bush was on friendly, issue-free terrain, where he gained ground just by planting a big one, big time, on the queen of daytime talk. The week before, Gore too had done well on Oprah, but the kid who asked for extra-credit assignments was not made for the confession format. Gore goofed by merely shaking hands ("No kiss?" Oprah wondered aloud). Worse, he pulled the curtain back only on Tipper's depression, rather than serving up any dark night of his own soul. Bush, on the other hand, delivered the emotional arc Oprah's fans tune...
...this country without ever getting out of our cars, we're a pretty sedentary lot. You can bank at the drive-up and grab dinner at the drive-through. For the ambitiously lazy, there's the drive-by shooting. But a suburban Pittsburgh man has taken sloth the extra mile. Who else but an American would open the world's first drive-through strip joint...
...years ago, it looked as though the movie world was about to knock Michelle Rodriguez out of the ring. The would-be actress was living with her mom in Jersey City, N.J., and laboring as an extra in movies like Summer of Sam; the thankless, anonymous work was wearing her out. Then she saw an ad in Back Stage for a Latina actress to portray a boxer in a new film. Rodriguez didn't box and had never auditioned for a speaking role in a movie before, but the ad intrigued her. "I thought, If I'm going to quit...
...gone from a 6'4" jumper to a 6'5.5" [jumper]," Turner said. "At that level, it's hard to get that extra centimeter...
Gone are the days when you go out to eat and look for a restaurant that fauns and caters to your every whim-folded napkins, compliments, hot waiters and waitresses who make charming small-talk, extra sauce, etc. Now it's all about being a dining masochist. Who wants five-star service when you can get prodded, insulted and booted out? DJ Slapdash tells me that one of the Chinese restaurants to go to in London's Chinatown is Wong Kei, perhaps the rudest restaurant you'll ever see. Here's what to expect when you walk through the glass...