Word: gasp
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Akira Isogawa's spring/summer 2005 collection is running over two hours late. The tardiness is as unsurprising as the trays of champagne that circulate through the 500-plus crowd - like bumper-to-bumper traffic, shows have been in a gridlock of delay since morning. Hardly surprising, either, is the gasp that finally greets Akira's creations as they weave their way through the crowd: the Sydney-based designer has been perfecting his bowerbird brand of beauty since first showing solo at Australian Fashion Week in 1998. What is surprising is that 81-year-old Max Whitehead, the original "Chesty Bonds...
...bodyguard, serenades us with “Amore” and other North End favorites on his accordion. Then, in the midst of enjoying our cheese ravioli, the lights dim and the star-crossed lovers Toni Marinara and Ditalina Carbonara enter. The couple dances palmer-kiss style until, gasp! Toni mysteriously collapses. We are informed that Toni has kicked the bucket—with some help...
...lucky few to receive straight A’s your freshman year. You’re coasting until you get to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey “C-” Mansfield’s sophomore year gov tutorial, and he gives you–gasp!–an A-. Now your perfect 4.0 is a less little than immaculate. What is the quintessential overachiever to do? Just aim for an A+ like all of your friends at Duke and Columbia, of course! Oh, wait–Harvard doesn’t give them. FM went...
...that was the last gasp for the fading Crimson, as the Lions implemented a press, forcing the Crimson to commit several mistakes and allowing Columbia to post an 11-2 run over the next...
...boomers are coming of age--old age. In two years the first offspring of the post--World War II generation (born from 1946 to 1964) will turn 60. What will that mean for the sons and daughters of the Age of Aquarius? Will passion diminish? Will performance decline or (gasp!) wither away...