Word: breathless
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Despite the breathless tone of the announcement last week, the Responsible Cooperators Program is not new. Originally instituted in 1994 as a means to reduce violent crime, the program was swiftly renewed by Congress this past September and signed into law by President George W. Bush on Oct. 1. As with many crimes, those who have information that could help the Justice Department solve old cases of terrorism or prevent new ones should be able to come forward without fear of being deported for minor visa violations...
...trying to belittle these efforts. The stamp collectors who will determine the biochemical pathways of the human body will bring more good to this world than anyone might imagine. However, the “Eureka,”—the breathless chase of uncharted physical processes—is what I am after...
...pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker?s trip to Castle Dracula into a symphony of thun-der, horses? hooves and whinnies, shouting villagers, shrieking carriage springs and the baying of wolves - set to a breathless mixture of narration and dialogue, and prefigured by the urgent underscoring of Bernard Herrmann?s origi-nal music - listeners must have realized with a thrill that they were in for a splendid summer of weekly drama. Just another conquest for Welles the Boy Wonder...
...Internet. Everywhere in cyberspace there are Web pages where do-it-yourself critics hold forth about movies, books, music and restaurants, to say nothing of airlines, power tools, and disposable diapers. What you discover at these sites is generally heartfelt and sometimes well informed and well written. Or breathless, obvious and ungrammatical--that's democracy for you. It can also be eccentric in ways you don't find in print or broadcast. How else to describe the Amazon posting on which the writer stops discussing the new 'N Sync album to issue an important bulletin from the libido? ANYONE...
...more than musical; it was subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When the genres did mix, like on the soundtrack for the forgettable 1993 thriller Judgment Night, it was with breathless pomp and circumstance (News flash: Pearl Jam rockin' and Cypress Hill rappin' on the same track! Very likely kicking back and sharing a doobie!). Now, not only is there nothing remarkable about a band that stirs rock, rap and pop into the same song; the kids, if the movies...