Word: ooh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ooh." Strike-out or home run, Rocky Colavito earns his $30,000 by playing with a flair that stirs delight up in the stands. After one of his flat-trajectory throws from rightfield, the "ooh!" lingers for drawn-out seconds. And when Rocky hits the long one and starts his languorous lope around the bases ("Rocky runs around after hitting a homer like he was still tasting it," says a sportscaster), the cheers follow him into the dugout...
...Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity it is! When I look at the forests, and the clear water, and the children and the grasses, I just haven't got the strength...
...Ooh, Bang (Doris Day; Columbia). Clean-cut Doris seems to have gotten in over her head here. Why do some girls like some men? Answers Doris: "Some are charmin', and some have looks./Some have money and some read books/but my guy, he's got so much Ooh Bang, Jiggly jang . . . [clang, clang...
...Ooh That Kiss (Peggy Lee; Decca). The incomparable Peggy, in another of her very special arrangements. Kiss, an oldtime cutie-cute number, gets a Latin cha cha cha treatment and blossoms into sheer fantasy. "What is love but a helpin' of an angel cake," croons Peggy, and an insolent flute and a clanking rhythm section confirm the sentiment...
...typical performance, he sits at the grand piano on a darkened stage with a 25-piece orchestra behind him and a discreet candelabra near by. He flashes a dazzling smile at the crowd, waves and mugs, squints up into the balcony and gushes into a convenient microphone, "Ooh look, there are people way up there...