Word: cool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the audience, aged six to eleven, cannot remember a time when satellites were not shuttling through space. Not visions of sugar plums dance in their heads but Darth Vader's star fighters. "It was cool," says a nine-year-old Chinese girl, adding: "They said it was all a scientific thing." A small black boy asks, "Hey man, who do you think runs this place...
Kansas City (They got a crazy way of lovin' there and I'm gonna get me some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...
...meet an artificial deadline. Sadat, for instance, did not want other Arab states to think that he was being rushed into making concessions. The Israelis have long made a point of refusing to buckle under pressure. One Israeli official speculated that it would be good for the talks to "cool off for a while. The last weeks were hectic. The tension added by Carter's demand for a conclusion by Dec. 17 left us exhausted...
This communal commercial approach yields a uniform sound to RSO's product: smooth, sweet and very airy, like a sauna filled with Cool Whip. Coury boasts that he has sold Eric Clapton better than anyone, but Clapton's RSO albums (like the recent Backless) are bleached-out blues for easy listening. Coury's golden ears have helped create a theme song from the new RSO movie Moment by Moment that seems just right for slow dancing in elevators. Consequently, Coury is often on the aesthetic defensive, making heated claims for such slick popsicles as the Bee Gees by stating, "They...
...disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that he behaved like a complete shit." When she writes about the end of her marriage to Jason Robards, she is as cool and businesslike as a woman returning a defective toaster...