Word: coos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Online ad agencies say they only want to improve the consumer experience, not gather dirt on webbies. "The point is to receive information that you are interested in as opposed to what you are not," says Lyn Chitow Oakes, coo of ad agency FlyCast. "It doesn't seem like advertising if you're interested in it." For example, DoubleClick has 50 million active cookies, which means that 50 million people see at least one targeted ad a month. This prolific snooping is nothing new. Credit-card companies have been building databases for years and offering deals based on your spending...
...Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their...
...little boy" must have been humming Thank Heaven for Little Girls over his good fortune. Who else but a morally indifferent ingenue would coo over his feeling sorry for himself because a soldier had died in Bosnia and would let him use it as an excuse to violate his fidelity calendar: the record she said he kept of the days he didn't cheat on his wife, like an alcoholic crossing off days he stays off the sauce. One frightening claim in the book is that the President became "sexually aroused" by Monica's description of her own Bosnia visit...
Accost annoyed upperclassman for key card swipe into building. Curse House master for outlawing universal keycard access, and crawl up five flights of stairs. Arrive at "party" of 10 Harvard men. Met with wide eyes. "Ooo. This is good," the so-called men coo...
Tell me more, tell me more, coo assorted pundits breathlessly, in their Pink Lady Jackets. How does the media feel about the whole jolly she-bang? Repeated endlessly, these questions have become painfully boring, but it is easy to be horrified by some of the press's efforts for sensationalism. One angle particularly off the mark is the moralistic retelling of young intern cast as naive victim and lead astray into sin by bad older...