An attempt at pancakes ended up mostly in the compost, as did a batch of muffins.
"So I cluelessly agreed to do a batch of podcasts, figuring, how complicated can that be?" It's complicated, yes, and a huge amount of work.
"I just did a batch of blue fish to get in the local newspaper, but then people kept on coming in asking for them".
The traditional narrative of the woman who made it on Wall Street in the 1980s and 1990s usually entails great feats of the superwoman variety — the female executive who is phoning in directives to the office while she is in labor, the working mother who whips up, as Morgan Stanley's Zoe Cruz once did, a batch of cookies at 4 a.m. for the bake sale, and then arrives at work by 5 30.
NBC really does have a batch of shows that are working, despite a rough patch this spring that even induced a presidential-level joke on Saturday night.
"The only thing to do with a batch of wine with acetic acid is to use reverse osmosis," said Lisa Van de Water, the founder and owner of Wine Lab, a consulting company in Napa, Calif., that specializes in emergency rescues of wines.
It's not exactly underrated it did win a batch of Oscars, including best director and best original screenplay but it's rarely mentioned as a holiday movie, despite the fact that its dramatic climax takes place on Christmas eve and day and centers on a misjudged present.
Film Forum's four-week, fifty-three-film series of French classics is called, catchily, "The French Old Wave," and it's true that the series does offer a batch of films that the young critics who became the New Wave repudiated in their writing and, in effect, replaced in the industry.
It's inconvenient, not to mention a bit shameful, to have them torn down unexpectedly and discover that what you really want to do, after a batch of drugs your shady adult children bought reduces you to your basest impulses, is call the cat a bitch.
I coughed up enough flour to make a batch of scones, but we did place second.
