Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cool off, Dean. Now, that New York Times fellow, R.W Appleseed, asked Ziegler some pointed questions last week. According to my news digest, Appleseed quoted Ziegler as saying you were in your office Friday, and further, 'I don't know what he's doing. Attending to business, I assume'--uh, here Ron chuckled, it says--'business of some sort.' Just what the hell were you doing in your office Friday...
...Wunderlick is read as Jesus Christ Superstar in the urban wilderness. Bucky is last seen recovering from a language-erasing drug. It is suggested that he has been purified. But by nudging his hero toward the truly mythic, De Lillo overextends a book that is otherwise distinguished by a cool, clinical touch. As he demonstrated in two previous novels (Americana and the much overpraised End Zone), the author has a knack for chill atmosphere, satiric caricature and witty dialogue. He is also a good literary mechanic who knows how to assemble spare parts from older writers like Nathanael West, Paul...
Robertson and the people at NBC in the meantime are playing things cool, and attempting to maintain an air of disinterestedness. "We've discussed possibilities," Robertson said, "but NBC has no financial or contractual arrangement for the return of Star Trek...
...irritant value, as in an inverted closeup of his own face repeating over and over the words "lip sync." But that is all: not much. In any case it seems a trifle late to be disinterring, once again, the idea of boredom as an aesthetic principle. Nauman's cool is of the kind that precedes rigor mortis...
...weeks as other councillors seemed reluctant to take sides in what was becoming a personal dispute between the mayor and Owens. Owens does not hide his low opinion of the mayor, but his protestations often have the quality of temper tantrums that have fared poorly against Ackermann's cool...