Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the Vice President, Kirkpatrick, 58, is the most sought after political speaker in the country. She plans to accept 50 of more than 200 lecture invitations she has received for the coming year. Her fee is $20,000 and up, meaning that she will pull in a cool $1 million at least. Her written words are also in demand. Last month she agreed to sign a $900,000 contract for a book about her experiences at the U.N. This fall she will begin writing a weekly newspaper column on foreign affairs, producing at least another $150,000 a year...
...vagrant, synonymous with tacky retailing and seamy night life. Now it is going through an efflorescence. Boutiques and malls throughout the U.S. are aglow with it. In the hands of architects, sculptors and even film directors, it is being put to complex and dazzling new uses. "Neon can be cool and elegant," says Paul Barrend, showroom manager of a Chicago neon workshop called Light & Space Design, "or it can be wild and vibrant. It calls attention...
...hang a thief. Yet they seem chained to an emotionally dead past. "The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom," said D.H. Lawrence. This includes Lorena, the local whore with the 14-karat ventricles, who joins the drive north because she has never lived any place cool. She also motivates much of the action when kidnaped by Blue Duck, an Indian whose specialty is killing settlers and selling their horses and children. Lonesome Dove has the highest mortality rate of any novel in recent memory. Characters are shot, stabbed, hanged, drowned, trampled, struck by snakes and lightning. "Gravediggers...
Even Bird comes back to the bench sometimes and hears, "Hey, we don't need that shot." Celtics can talk to one another this way. Says Carr: "Someone might tell me, 'You're goofing around too much. Cool it.' O.K. But we're together slam-dunking the ball with Parish, together stealing it with Dennis Johnson. And when Bird goes off on one of his games, we're excited for ourselves...
During camping excursions. "All the kids that were cool in the project, tougher than everybody else, were just as scared out in the woods as anybody else," she says. "It's really nice to just see them treating each other like people." The program, which was financed by PBH, culminated with an outing to Vermont and a tour of Montreal...