Word: agog
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...arrested scribes for so-called moblogging, i.e., rallying rioters with incendiary language. Entries on SKYBLOG ranged from urging malcontents to "unite ... and burn the cops" to reasoning that "we have to be calm; if not, all of this will come to nothing." Across the Atlantic, bloggers were enraged and agog. BARKING MOONBAT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM deemed the assault on free speech the "Most Ridiculous Item of the Day," adding sarcastically, "I never realized we bloggers had this much power...
Wide-eyed, I found a spot among the line of press and spent the next hour-plus agog at the whirlwind of celebrities and their girlfriends and their agents and their publicists...
...Being gifted helps, and on graduating in 1990, McKenzie was immediately cast opposite Russell Crowe in Geoffrey Wright's incendiary Romper Stomper. If it was a baptism by fire, it was "a really beautiful one," she recalls. "It was my first film but boy was I agog." She remembers rookie director Wright as "a great coaxer," and took acting notes from her costar, who she calls "an exquisite performer." For Crowe, "it's straight back to the drawing board," says McKenzie. "Who's the character? What does he believe in? Who's his family...
Washington officials, agog over what they had just seen on their TV sets, immediately denied Yurchenko's allegations. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman called the charges "completely false and without any foundation." State Department officials informed the Soviets they would not allow Yurchenko to leave the U.S. until he had satisfied them he was going voluntarily. On Tuesday evening he was driven to the State Department for a meeting with senior officials and a psychiatrist. After the 30-minute visit, U.S. officials concluded that Yurchenko indeed wished to leave. As he emerged from the building, he clasped his hands above...
...scandals go, a D-list Bollywood actor caught propositioning an unknown undercover reporter from an equally unknown TV channel isn't exactly Monica Lewinsky. Nevertheless, India was agog last week when upstart channel India TV broke what quickly became known as the "casting-couch scandal." In a Bombay hotel room rigged with hidden cameras, has-been screen villain Shakti Kapoor told what he thought was an aspiring young actress: "I want to make love to you. And if you want to come in this line [of business], you have to do what I am telling [you] to do." Kapoor then...