Word: impressibly
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...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
...gawk-everyone reacts the same way. Yet it doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort to impress the hurried passersby, to get more attention that the litter skittering past their army boots...
...class dweeb. He gives Thornbook a rubber chicken as part of some arcane Ames competition ritual and lamely jokes about fondling it. Thornbook stares him down, and Okun stammers out, a la Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre, "I really didn't fondle it; I only said that to impress...
...home the new leader has never had any such softy image. An apparently modest and retiring man who rarely makes TV appearances, Andropov has been trying to impress the masses not with his charisma but with severe and unwavering efficiency. Last week he contributed an 8,000-word article to the theoretical journal Kommunist in which he unequivocally condemned "socalled rolling stones, shirkers, slackers, who, as a matter of fact, sponge off society." Encouraging thriftiness and responsibility, he firmly denounced those who treat state property recklessly or guard private property jealously. His clear implication: the blame for an economic growth...
...Kafka's preface immediately clears the book of any charge of smugness: "The selections...were chosen because they were the most representative of the writing we received," she says, "not because they were the best. "If the purpose of I Will Always Stay Me is not merely to impress, its editors must have something more in mind...