Word: ahhs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...books, magazines and newspapers. Play, read, cook, read, travel, read and then read some more with your kids. If reading becomes the primary form of entertainment in the home, youngsters will turn to books. My best moments were when the kids were naughty and told they could not read. Ahh, the pleasure of catching them "sneak reading." Killing our television was the best thing we ever did. BRIDGET BOYLE Corona, Calif...
...Ahh...the nuances of Harvard social life. Well, at least you have somewhere to go and are obviously not being mocked by Store 24 employees on a Saturday night (see last week's edition of Fifteen Minutes for more details). Your problem is a good one to have. As freshmen desperately cruise the Yard looking for something better to do than chat up the backpack checkers in Lamont or crowd into an impossibly small common room with 400 sweaty classmates, you can let the people come...
...easy: "The idea is to marry the two cultures together and say, 'This is a brilliant story that takes place in England; we'll give that to Anthony Minghella [director of The English Patient]. This is something that's feminist and sexy; that sounds like Jane Campion [The Piano]." Ahh. Why didn't Jeffrey Katzenberg think of that...
...door of our bus opened, there he stood, looking as though he'd just stepped out of one of his old westerns. Very much in awe of this man whom I grew up watching and tried to emulate at times, the only thing I could think to say was, "Ahh, nice to meet you." But Roy was the kind of man who was easy to know and easier to like, so after about two minutes, I was asking questions, and he was answering everything about Trigger, Gabby Hayes, Nelly Belle and his wife Dale Evans. As my wife...
...Ahh, Tori Amos. The fairy-eyed, flame-haired imp who straddles the piano bench while playing songs with lyrics like, "Look, I'm standing naked before you, / Don't you want more than my sex?" ,and ends every concert with a heart-wrenching rendition of "Over the Rainbow." Ever since her groundbreaking and soul-churning first album, Little Earthquakes, she has captured the attention of nearly everyone, from emotionally tormented souls and the most critical of music critics. Her quirky, often abrasive songs unabashedly confront sex, heartache and religion without whining or spewing out popmusic poetry, a la Jewel...