Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably bump into sitcom stars in adjoining sound stages on your way to the bathroom. (I never knew that Christina Applegate, Kelly Bundy on Fox's "Married With Children," wore glasses.) Even better are talk shows and game shows, where they actually pay you to come and hoot and holler as part of the audience. Tickets for those events must be reserved early in advance...
...public school teacher with two kids in college, ailing parents, giant hassles with HMOs, a vehicle that has more than 175,000 miles on it, and dogs with fleas. Do you really think I give a hoot about what possible ethical violations [NATION, June 10] (not even criminal acts) Bill and Hillary Clinton may have committed almost 20 years ago? I'm not sure there's a person living, this side of Mother Teresa, who didn't do at least one dumb thing 20 years ago. CHRISTINE GRASDORF Fayette, Missouri...
...Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there is no turning back. Everyone in Columbia, practically everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...OUTRAGED AT YOUR PRINTING OF Keillor's piece on Thanksgiving. I almost choked to death while eating my jellied cranberry sauce. Garrison cooked a delightful stuffing of philosophical musings, corn-pone anecdotes and downright slapstick jokes. A milestone hoot. PAT STEPHENSON Prairie Village, Kansas
...Kingsley Amis found himself pigeonholed as one of the Angry Young Men, postwar British writers from the lower classes who seemed bent on toppling the shaky but still oppressive Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer...