Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagine Cambridge--gasp--without the University. Although Harvard is not legally bound to pay taxes, it voluntarily coughs up anywhere between $500,000 and $1 million to the city annually...
...Help! Help!" I scream, but am answered only by my echoes, "Who are you people? Kidnappers? Terrorists?!" The only response is cruel laughter, "Who are you, then?" I gasp...
...Tarbox, is to be put forward as a new Messiah. The play is performed at fever pitch by its authors, Levi Lee, Larry Larson and Rebecca Alworth, and their dual roles have made them a little undisciplined: they have tended to retain anything that gets a laugh or a gasp of astonishment. Thus the first act ends with startling visual evidence that the infant really possesses spiritual powers; the second act does nothing to explore that provocative notion. Still, the , show's energy never flags, and its lunatic characters are perversely endearing...
When the Princess of Wales appeared at a ball for Britain's Fashion Week, an almost audible gasp of surprise rippled through the assemblage of London designers. In other surroundings Diana might have prompted yawns: she had chosen a dressing gown--bathrobe to most Yanks--made from turquoise, fuchsia and cobalt-blue silk faconne and worn over a formal dress. "Wearing it in public put the royal seal of approval on it," said delighted David Sassoon, who designed the robe for her after seeing the boudoir look in U.S. publications. Meanwhile, Charles and Diana accepted an invitation to visit Ronald...
Because the biggest, greatest and best are tossed about so easily in sports, like footballs in the Miami rain, the most articulate superlative left may be just a gasp changing to a sigh, such as Doug Flutie brought to college football last week. The most cuddly player in history, or at least since Eddie LeBaron, appears about to run away with the Heisman trophy. Mindful that there have been stirring football finishes for 100 years, and rip-roaring games the equal of Boston College's 47-45 victory over Miami, it can be fairly stated that never have...