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...game rages on. Some guy hits something with a misshapen plank of wood and everybody in the room goes “Ooooooh.” Instead of being rowdy, the audience is mostly reverent. Mild shouts of “What a bowl!” greet the instant replay. When something goes terribly awry, they tilt back their heads and make a disapproving yet dignified “tsk” sound, or place their heads in their hands while groaning or (when things get really rough) raise their arms at an oblique angle and flail their forefingers...

Author: By V.e. Hyland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Other World Cup | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...know what I think when I see a limousine?" he said, "Ooooooh--you have 80 dollars...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: Spade Entertains Harvard | 3/25/1994 | See Source »

...MOUTH ON HER. OOOOOOH, yeah! Uh-huh! Whoo-pi! Gives a little grin, lets loose a blast of in-your-face black street trash, something about yo muthuh. True, child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Being Whoopi Goldberg | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...first group, the Callbacks, opened with a crowd-pleasing--but very hokey--tap-dance routine that included a barely audible scat solo. The group's musical selection improved markedly with their second song, the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By," ending on an "ooooooh" that seemed to last a good half hour...

Author: By Daniel E. Markel, | Title: Ménage a cappella: | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...then the song rolls along with the meter running and the twin refrain: "Get up, get out, get into something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones' finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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