Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forget the antiquated descriptions in the Unofficial Guide or the breathless patter of the Crimson Key Society. Even a sixth-year senior will tell you that House characters have changed forever. In the wake of randomization, the stereotypes of the Houses have been shattered by waves of students who have little in common with each other or the classes that came before them...
...1950s and '60s, TIME lionized the Capitalist as Hero in a flock of fact-packed if somewhat breathless cover stories. They were rather typical of the uncritical coverage in this age of conformity and steady growth. The 1955 Man of the Year was General Motors' central-casting CEO Harlow Curtice (he was Hollywood-handsome, tungsten-tough, up-from-the-bottom, etc.); that year, GM also topped FORTUNE's first 500 list. TIME created a sensation by spotlighting the little-known Jean Paul Getty as the world's richest private citizen...
...musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity. But Ozawa's long tenure offers some relief--and a certain degree of autonomy. When the spry conductor leapt onto stage, the applause he received was as breathless as for a rock star. This applause was not of adulation. It was of respect. Ozawa does not need to choose a repertoire filled with the lite classical music that we hear in television commercials and Au Bon Pain's front foyer. His allegiance is not to music that...
Oookay. But should the people who jazz up the evening news with sappy music and breathless JonBenet updates moan that Stone is crashing their party? After years of pelting the wall between news and entertainment, they shouldn't be so shocked that Stone, one of America's best entertainers, would help push the wall over...
...packaging and absurdly tasty-sounding flavors: chocolate banana split, java chip, mocha latte swirl. But unlike candy and cookies, energy bars have staked out the nutritional high ground. They promise guilt-free bursts of energy and obscure but seemingly healthful extras--antioxidants, "fast-burn nutrition technology" and, in the breathless words of one, "31,000 mg amino acids...