Word: awful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aw, c'mon, Alberto. If this winter's campaign has proved anything, it is that the former bad boy from Bologna is not only a smarter bomb but also one with laser-guided determination. His image--that of a fun-loving playboy--belies the Zenlike, almost scary concentration he has brought to bear in amassing 43 career victories over nine years. Although Tomba competes only in slalom and giant-slalom races--he does not ski the downhill, super-giant slalom or combined races, the other three ingredients in World Cup competition--he has made his two events a near monopoly...
Another option is to harass all the vendors that line either side of Brattle Street. Pretend to try on a hat with garish flowers while admiring yourself in their grime-streaked mirrors. "Aw, don't I look cute?" When they're not looking, pluck off all of the flowers and stick them in your backpack. Mom'll love a surprise packet of cheap plastic flowers...
...just writing those words makes me want to break out of sadness and reach back in time and speak '60s-speak, or at least how the '60s spoke before they turned dark. So I guess I mean I want to speak Kennedyese. I want to say, Aw listen, kid, don't be glum. What a life...
...usual detritus of pop fame that he would rarely leave the protection of his hotel room when he was on the road. At the same time, as the most popular corporate spokesman in America, he was stuck in the persona that marketing wizards had created for him: the smiling, aw-shucks athletic phenom whom you would gladly have over to your house for a breakfast of champions...
...succeeds Alistair Cooke. I want to be the man who succeeds the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon, now a candidate for mayor of Boston, considered the aw-shucks Baker "a great television event waiting to happen. He's Cooper, Ray Milland, all the great movie faces wrapped into...