Word: cooler
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...result of this culture of silence is the erosion of ambition. It is in poor taste to look grasping, and in poor taste to aspire too transparently towards something, be it a grade or a position of leadership or a place in a final club. A gadabout is always cooler than a grind. Ambition is pass?...
...show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other comics might beg for love; Carson accepted...
...screen information will increase. "I'm not sure that anyone has figured out what interactive means," says Gary Hartley, Fox's senior vice president for graphic design. But rest assured: with so much money riding on TV football, producers will keep investing to make the game-watching experience cooler and cooler...
...going to win at the ballot box until we start winning at the water cooler and in the church pews...
...always been much cooler than me. When I was a freshman, writers’ meetings intimidated me because I could never keep up with the fast volley of inside jokes bouncing back and forth in the Sanctum. A year of writing helped slightly, though when I was being interviewed for the associate editor position, I self-consciously admitted to the then-execs that my biggest weakness was my “lack of snap.” I just wasn’t funny, I told them sheepishly, over an incredibly awkward schmooze at Daedalus. As an associate...