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...Aaaaaah, maybe not. This American President exists in an alternate universe from the one the real Bill Clinton must inhabit. The movie offers nostalgia for a time that might have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WHERE NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Aaah, aaaahh, aaaaaah, aaaaahhhh. And also, possibly -- why not? -- aaaaahhhhhhhh. These are the onomatopoetics of anguish (and perverse exhilaration) as rendered by Tom Wolfe toward the end of The Bonfire of the Vanities. They are the sounds made by his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, as he at last acknowledges that he is an all too human animal: capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schemes And Dreams for Christmas | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Here come the comments: "Ooooh, aaaaaah THE SPACEMAN. Did he say anything weird--Is he really wigged out--Is Don Zimmer really a gerbil--Why didn't he pitch the last half of the season--Can I get some of the stuff he smokes so I can be like...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: A Little Lee-Way | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...basement, ceilinged by exposed pipes that cast members have garnished with crepe paper. The festive one-for-all atmosphere heightened in intensity; in a few hours the only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather in garious groups." The cast hopped and stomped, up and down, practicing diction and singing scales, up and down. The man who paced was Kenneth LaZebnik, director-cum-ringmaster and coach now warming (or frenzying...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: BEHIND THE GREENROOM DOOR | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...losing is foreign, that's what it is, foreign! Almost Communist! The great Red hoard, plundering, smashing, raping, wrecking! Crimson jerseys everywhere--aaaaaah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Study of History | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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