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...have to confess that I love the play, despite its somewhat saccharine rags-to-riches plot. I love the way Henry Higgins bombards Liza with continuously more inventive insults, to which she can only respond "coo" and look offended. I still think that "bedraggled guttersnipe" is the height of wit. Henry Higgins has that I'm-too-slick-for-words-but-I-fall-for-women-from- the-underclass kind of style that I find admirable in middle-aged linguists...

Author: By Noahs Archives, | Title: Corruption of Youth | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...Whitewater Development Company, which the Clintons coo-owned with family friend James B. McDougal, was a failed attempt to sell vacation homes in rural Arkansas...

Author: By John Wagley, | Title: Profs: Whitewater Overblown | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

...those feminist WACoes, who angrily coo...

Author: By G.k. Wenceslas, | Title: Intimations of Crimson Munificence | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

What's an editorialist to do? These are two of my favorite ideals, and usually, they come as sort of a package deal--I coo with delight each time The Alliance of Parents Against Cuss Words in Rock Music mounts yet another doomed campaign...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Topless Liberalism Running Wild | 10/20/1993 | See Source »

...sounds like something from a screwball comedy: two sweethearts coo at each other by night and then turn around and try to demolish each other by day. But that's the life of Mary Matalin, George Bush's campaign field director, and James Carville, Bill Clinton's chief strategist. The two are in love, and at war, at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star-Crossed Lovers | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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