Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reilly shines as Jack/Don Juan, triumphantly maintaining both a flawless upper-middle class British accent and, more importantly, a breathless vitality that makes us understand what attracts Ann to such a unchivalrous, preachy windbag. In the purely sexual sense of the life force, he goes one better than Flanders. who plays up an engaging slyness as the predatory Ann, but falls a little short of projecting the mysterious feminine fascination that captures Jack against his will...
Berners-Lee is the unsung--or at least undersung--hero of the information age. Even by some of the less breathless accounts, the World Wide Web could prove as important as the printing press. That would make Berners-Lee comparable to, well, Gutenberg, more or less. Yet so far, most of the wealth and fame emanating from the Web have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year...
...they even collaborated on a novel, Crown of Columbus. That book, too, became a best seller. "They were like a twin star system," says a friend, author Martin Cruz Smith. "I can't think of another pair of writers who work like that." Another good friend, Ruth Coughlin, almost breathless at the memory of seeing the couple on the dance floor, went even further, recalling the pair as "Scott and Zelda without the alcohol...
Speculation reached a fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
...heard the above story told me that he had just crept inside the door of a classroom when another student entered. The professor, already dismayed at what he perceived to be intolerable over-crowding, demanded that the student leave immediately. The student tried to manage some sort of breathless defense, but the professor did not relent. "Leave now. There are too many of you. You are taking up all the oxygen." This student then left, albeit very bewildered and disappointed. The professor then instructed all freshman and seniors to leave the room; they would not be considered for enrollment...