Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smith's office is a meticulously detailed desk calendar. But one day remains strangely empty. The only notation for Saturday, June 17-when the crowd will be at its peak-is this: ba da boom! An old Shinnecock expression, no doubt...
High over the hallowed grass of Boston's most famous landmark, I began to separate my love for sports--be it as a spectator or participant--from my job as a sportswriter. I could be both the passionate fan and jovially clinical chronicler. Boom: perspective. For the first time, I began to savor the moments. This is the turning point in any sportswriter's career. One cannot survive in this business as a fan; the job simply saps the spirit...
...town where I lived. My new rule as Bone was, "Basically don't bother your parents and don't bother the cops or one of them will sic the other on you, because to them, to all of them you're just another homeless stoned dropout dealing small-load boom to the locals." Great, but then Mr. Banks decides for some goofy reason to send me to Jamaica for further adventures. Which I never believed, especially some stuff about finding my jerk of a real father, and you won't either. I mean, Mr. Banks seems to know all about...
...great building boom got under way as soon as Ramesses took the throne at age 25, right after he discovered that the great temple his father Seti I had begun at Abydos was a shambles. The new pharaoh summoned his courtiers to hear his plans for completing the work. From there he went on to build dozens of monuments, including a temple to Osiris at Abydos, expansions of the temples at Luxor and Karnak and the cliff temples at Abu Simbel, which were rescued from waters rising behind the Aswan Dam in the 1960s...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Watching Die Hard with a Vengeance, third in the series that pits New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) against a wily, chatty nut case with a fondness for TNT, the viewer simply suspends belief and coolly appraises the things that go boom. Say, wasn't that a nicely staged Wall Street explosion? My, that runaway subway train crashed onto the platform with a certain vigorous verismo. Oh, look-more actors playing dead people! So little wit is expended on the dialogue and so much on the imagination of disaster that...