Word: suckering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Olympia Soundbug ($50, at www.shoplifestyle.com onto any wood, metal or glass surface, plug it into the headphone jack of your laptop or Walkman and listen to the surface start to resonate like a real speaker. Hook up a pair of the mouse-size devices, and enjoy stereo sound. Their sucker-like push rings lock them firmly in place--even on windows...
...baseball movies are generally preposterous, melodramatic, rife with the sort of cheap film-school tricks that momentarily make us worry our star might not make this pitch? Shucks, the absurdity is part of the fun. I’m no melting puddle, and I’m still a sucker for The Natural. Robert Redford smashes home runs that defy physics and logic, and he hits the last one—the one that shatters the floodlights—while poisoned, and shot and bleeding through his uniform...
...arbitrary holiday is rooted in the expectation that I participate in a nationwide romance-pageant, where my genetic desirability—or lack thereof—is shamelessly pitted against that of my fellow man when I have no say in the matter. I’m a sucker for romance, but no one asked if this particular Thursday works for me. No one cared that I lose my appetite when hundreds of couples giggle and coo on all sides and when the sexual tension at the neighboring table is enough to make me sweat. I may not like...
...can’t believe our luck and wonder if a Boston Globe sucker is hot on this trail. We imagine the room filling with astonished glances...
...confession of weakness: the undersigned is a sucker for time-travel movies. Good, bad or indifferent, films that plop at least one character down in the wrong century--where his or her dress, customs and conversation befuddle and occasionally outrage the temporally challenged locals--always delight...