Word: supper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie family is the McCallisters, preparing to leave for a Christmas reunion in Paris. Their youngest son Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is sent to bed without supper for spilling milk on the passports. "I don't want to see you ever again for the rest of my whole life," he sulkily informs his mother. When he wakes up the next morning, he has got his wish: the family has vanished. In the confusion of a rushed departure for the airport, a sleeping Kevin has been forgotten, and his absence is not noticed until the rest of the clan is halfway over...
...herself, in a rare try at humor, as "Genghis Khan." Such japes are a bit hard on the ex-President and the late Mongol scourge. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's highly conservative Prime Minister, is hard to humanize. Still, when Britain needed to be put to bed without its supper after decades of infantile class warfare, she did the job. Now unemployment is high, and education and health care are poorer. But Britain's economy and pride have perked up, and the middle class is prospering...
Early in June I traveled with Khariton to the Installation in his personal railroad car. After supper Khariton said, "((KGB chief Yuri)) Andropov called me in. His agents have been finding copies of your essay all over the place -- it's circulating illegally, and it will cause a lot of harm if it gets abroad. Andropov asked me to talk to you. You ought to withdraw it from circulation...
...Bundy of Married . . . With Children arriving at his doorstep, which in fact does resemble the gates to Dante's Inferno. Conversation in the Bundy family is a torrent of verbal abuse. "This is a home, not a restaurant," insists Al's wife Peg, after he demands his supper. "I know," he snaps. "If it was a restaurant, we'd have a clean bathroom...
...hesitantly took over his press fiefdom. Surprisingly, for a reticent, private figure, she proved to be a hands-on publisher who expanded the Copley newspaper chain and quadrupled its worth to more than $800 million. Kroc, whose personal fortune is estimated at $950 million, was a music teacher and supper-club organist from Minnesota who married McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in 1969 and moved to San Diego with him in 1976 to run his newly acquired Padres. After Kroc's death in 1984, she turned his conservative Republicanism on end by contributing mightily to disarmament causes...