Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spends some wee, small hours of the morning with Frank Sinatra. The armor of such black, white and occasional gray knights is not deeply penetrated. Vanderbilt is more absorbed in her younger self, which she encases in a shell of hard, polished prose. It is a stylish, though distinctly cool, portrayal of the realities of a fairy-tale life...
Though Kinison stretches the bounds of good taste, his bombast can be furiously funny. His rantings against women, for instance, may outrage some, but they are a cathartic antidote to cool yuppie relationship-speak, brazen in their sheer excess. "I'm not worried about hell," he says, " 'cause I was ((exploding into a shout)) married for two f years! Hell would be like Club Med!" A stint at the piano for a song to his ex-girlfriend turns into a string of obscenities ending with "I want my records back!" His blasphemous accounts of the Last Supper and the Resurrection...
While everyone said they found the trumpet blaring music of Benny Goodman and other Big Band directors to be interesting, not everyone preferred it to jazz or rock and roll. Although some more intrepid dancers confessed to their partners "Oh, I love this song, this is really cool," more confided with somewhat disappointed expressions, "This is O.K., but I can't get too enthused about...
PERCY HAS been called "our cool Dostoevsky," and the worst thing The Thanatos Syndrome reveals about him, I think, is that he isn't half as "cool" as he once was. That moniker's an oxymoron, by the way. Dostoevsky was never "cool"; his passion propelled him. But it's precisely Percy's understated anger that makes his prose, at its very best, bristle. There's a quiet, marvelous moment at the end of The Thanatos Syndrome where the angst of our condition comes pouring through...
According to supporters, the show has poor ratings and the network is considering cancelling it. They asked each candidate to submit a written statement explaining why the program should remain on the air, and comments ranged from "Robert Urich is a cool dude--he's talented and gorgeous," to "the camaraderie between Hawk and Spenser is a positive view for Boston, showing that men of color can work together to form a successful unit...