Word: breathless
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...cites another boy-girl story as an influence: “I really like the way Godard does banter, the way it’s both romantic and cynical. But it’s boring to say you like ‘Breathless.’ Its much cooler to say you like Czech New Wave...
...optimism of that dreamy decree seems more like something that's found in the required reading of Disney employees than those of a natural-food store, indeed, it is that very breathless, what's-around-the-next-corner excitement that Whole Foods seeks to inspire...
...issues troubling relations between the two countries - from trade conflicts to Taiwan, from human-rights abuses to the rampant piracy of U.S. goods. "With half the time taken up by translators," adds Pei, "how much of substance can they cram in? These guys are going to be breathless from racing through their talking points...
Turkle, author of the recently reissued The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, has an explanation for this breathless exchange of inanities. "There's an extraordinary fit between the medium and the moment, a heady, giddy fit in terms of social needs." The online environment, she points out, "is less risky if you are lonely and afraid of intimacy, which is almost a definition of adolescence. Things get too hot, you log off, while in real time and space, you have consequences." Teen venues like MySpace, Xanga and Facebook--and the ways kids can personalize their IM personas--meet...
...looking at your…You got real big brains, but I’m looking at your…Girl, there ain’t no pain in me looking at your…” To which these female singers respond in breathless acquiescence, “I don’t give a…Keep looking at my…” Note the omission of references to breasts. How thoughtful, how considerate. These are, to put it simply, the symptoms of an ailing culture. The men aspire to be “pimps?...