Word: gee
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...course, any modern fair is obliged to give frequent lip service to a kind of chipper one-worldism (110 countries have exhibits -- an all-time world's fair record!) and to environmental sensitivity (organizers planted 300,000 shrubs on the site!). Moreover, the gee-whiz, spick-and-span perkiness found in New York's Flushing Meadows in 1964 is strikingly evident in Seville. At any moment, one expects to see teams of Esperanto-speaking U.N. technicians in lab coats disembarking from Hovercraft to brief James Bond...
...concerning the sexual harassment suit filed by a former DCE staff member, I feel compelled to assure all my colleagues in the division that I take all forms of misconduct seriously and you can be sure that any complaint will be pursued properly be me, by [Personnel Officer] Teresa Gee, and by any of our supervisors," the memo says...
...just a different thing we decided topull on, that we got inspired from, that we wrote.And it just happens to be that the song isprobably the least offensive-sounding, sotherefore the record company figured it would bethe least difficult thing to market as a single.It's not like, gee, guys, gotta write a single.Gotta write a pop tune. If we were to have goneinto the studio in July and said, "Let's crank outa hit single," we probably wouldn't have come upwith something like "Ratlesnake", because it'sreally not what's going on the airwaves right now.We would have...
...didn't do much to help. At first, we felt bad for many of our male friends, appraising them and thinking to ourselves, "Gee, how is he going to look sexy?" Unable to think of an answer, we let them off, saying that "sexy is an attitude," promising to let them into our party anyway...
...that Nike is a corporate giant, it still fosters the image of irreverent hipness with its striking advertising and superstar endorsers: the magical Michael Jordan, the bodacious Bo Jackson and those rebels with racquets, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi. The authors tell this tale with a mixture of gee-whiz cheerleading and nostalgic regret. (Strasser is the wife of an ex-Nike executive; Becklund is her sister and a writer at the Los Angeles Times...