Word: oomph
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Last week in Memphis, during her first campaign appearance with Jesse Jackson, Ferraro left the versifying to him, but her cadences and declarative oomph seemed markedly Jacksonian...
...still pointed, but innovations in ancient gymnastics equipment have virtually freed the athletes from gravity, thus making physical pyrotechnics the premiere element of the sport. The mats on which gymnasts tumble are no longer mere padding to protect against injury, but launching pads mounted on springs. The extra oomph affords additional milliseconds of hang time during which gymnasts can twist and twirl through the same maneuvers as a high diver's. For male gymnasts, wooden dowels inserted into their leather handgrips allow a lock-grip on the high bar and make possible daring-young-man flyaway tricks like...
Music is everywhere. Cajun zydeco and cool blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...
...didn't have the extra oomph that we had in other games, like the B.U. game," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said of the two games, just after witnessing the first shutout of his team in Bright since the center opened...
...breathy voluptuousness, is Stephanie Lawrence, 28, who headlined the London production of 'Evita by night and rehearsed her Marilyn! lines during the day. In between, the British actress frantically gobbled French fries to put on 14 Ibs. and give her 110-lb. frame a little Monroevian oomph. The result: the critics loved her, though they could not swallow the play. Said one: "Yet one more leaden exercise in necrophiliac hagiography." -By E. Graydon Carter