Word: aw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HOLLYWOOD. An impatient young doctor (Michael J. Fox) stumbles into a serenely integrated community in South Carolina -- "Hee Haw hell," he calls it -- and acquires a pig, a girlfriend and some scruples. It's a feature- length attack of the aw-shucks, but Fox, world's nicest star, makes it painless...
...REAGAN SHOW to see the host twit Kitty Kelley, "who we know applies only the highest journalistic standards to her work." Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw- shucks ingenuity tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both in this R-rated melange of volatile guests (discussing steroids, Fundamentalism, rap music, gay rage) and a rowdy, het-up audience. The result is part encounter group, part bear baiting. And Ron seems willing to play, not omniscient emcee, but human sacrifice. "I used...
...underboss. This was the ultimate insult. We were actually gonna kill him right in a crowded funeral parlor, but there was too much law outside. That night, it's time to leave, and Chuckie grabs Salvie by the neck and kisses him on the lips. Smaaack! I said, "Aw, if he doesn't know now, he'll never know." That was the kiss of death...
...only that, you'll have the cleanest credit record in town. "How's his payment history?" one computer may ask another. "He pays early!" the other may flash back. "Aw, c'mon," the first computer will say. "No, really! Here -- look!" Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down." All because...
...from the goal and announces, "I bet $100 I can sink one from here." A stagehand snaps up the wager. Marsalis flexes his knees, rises up on his toes and sends the ball arcing through the misty night sky. Swish! Amid scattered applause and shouts of "Aw right!" from fellow musicians, a voice calls out, "Wynton, you are one competitive dude!" The young man grins. "No, I'm not competitive," he says in his soft-spoken New Orleans accent. "I just like to play...