Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of rhetoric that infuriates Israelis. "The Palestinian state is within our grasp," he declared. "Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem." Arafat was more intent on shoring up his own constituencies. Embarking on a week of consultations even more breathless than usual, the peripatetic chairman flew off to reassure Arab leaders in Yemen, Egypt, Sudan and Morocco...
...There tends to be an inverse relationship between the amount of press coverage each rumor receives and the likelihood of a deal. The Cosby gambit -- which was floated and came to nothing last fall, which generated a respectful Wall Street Journal article in June and a breathless feature in the current Vanity Fair -- is thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits...
Roller hockey, as it's called, was already a growth industry. But the Kings' breathless playoff victories have made it a retail bonanza. In Pasadena, my hometown, sporting goods stores reported record sales of sticks, pads and blades. Many removed the baseball and basket-ball equipment from store windows and replaced it with hockey pucks and jerseys...
...moping around a laboratory or gallant, tear-streaked lady belatedly triumphing over a dismal affliction, but a movie star (of sorts) who specialized in doing a highly cinematic thing -- namely a form of kung fu, all lightning reactions and fluid, swirling choreography. Moreover, the movie retains that air of breathless awe and dauntless approval that has always made movie biographies . such a pleasant relief from the gloomy ambiguities of written ones...
...burns around them, is to run for cover, Reno drew herself up tall, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, and went on national television to say, The buck stops with me, I take full responsibility, it was my decision, I approved the plans, until journalists and pundits and pols were breathless at the audacity of it, an act of political self-immolation. She was everywhere on the evening news and the talk shows, declaring that after hard thought she had reached the best judgment she could and that "based on what we know now, obviously it was wrong...