Word: agog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were agog. His twin (ha!) brother asked, "What might this be regarding...
...production of La Traviata. The pair have been together ever since, as inseparable as two can be who must manage separate singing careers; they plan to marry in the next couple of weeks. "It's destiny," Alagna cries. "Very good destiny!" Naturally, the romance has the music world agog and has led to catty backstage gossip about the deals and schemes that envy often inspires...
...easy to see why people who make their living studying Michelangelo and Shakespeare should be agog at the possibility of more material to occupy their attention. But perhaps the marble Cupid's imaginary puzzlement may be shared by flesh-and-blood mortals with no vested career interests in the matter. What indeed is going on here...
...accent. Prominent newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, have been happy to publish her. And while Senate majority leader Bob Dole, whom she's pronounced unelectable as President, might wish she had rolled over and gone back to sleep or back home to Santa Barbara, California, Republican Washington is agog...
...night to remember last May at the Italian restaurant Bice in downtown Tokyo. The room was agog because among the diners were two middle-aged men, one burly, the other downright fat. They sat around jawing about sports -- soccer, tennis, Formula 1 auto racing. At one point they turned to chat about fashion with a neighboring party of awed Italians. The cause of the stir was that the two amiable gents were the world's most famous opera singers and among the richest and best-known entertainers in any field: Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti...