Word: pizazz
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...jumble of supposedly Danish syllables that proved to be astonishingly catchy. Häagen-Dazs, as he called his new ice cream in 1960, is meaningless in Danish, and, as Mattus observes somewhat impishly, the Danish language does not even use the umlaut, but he "thought it gave more pizazz." In fact, Mattus had no connection with Denmark; his own family had emigrated from Poland. But on the tops of his ice-cream cartons he printed a map of Scandinavia, with a star marking Copenhagen and an arrow swooping toward the star. Unwary buyers of this costly marvel (which sells...
...Prince has picked up a little pizazz by association with Lady Diana, she has assumed the beginnings of a royal aspect. Even though she chose to have "obey" deleted from the marriage service, she has not yet dealt successfully with the problem of monarchical chapeaux. Women of the royal family are all encouraged and expected to wear hats for formal occasions. Lady Diana's early efforts to comply with this code have resulted in a couple of wowzers, including one that looked as if the mother ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind had made a forced landing...
...plus a slight Hungarian accent and blond wig make her look and sound a bit like Zsa-Zsa Gabor. Staid rabbis are sometimes scandalized by her delivery, which ranges from a concerned whine to a dramatic whisper. But lay listeners are held spellbound by her blend of polemics and pizazz. Sometimes they weep openly as she speaks about the possible fate of Israel or the loss of Jewish youths through intermarriage with non-Jews. "This generation suffers from Jewish amnesia," she says...
...have to do our bit to keep up the great traditions of Western literature," he says. "I learned to read from comic books and I can see that the more distinguished students at Quincy House did too. It shows; they're got the right"--he searches for the word--"pizazz...
Certain aspects of the scandal are unique to the Washington Post, including its emphasis on pizazz. But, as Jane Perlez, media critic of the New York Daily News, wrote, "other fabrications, on a less spectacular scale, go by every day in news stories. Every day, reporters 'embellish' quotes from an individual to make them 'sound better' or to fit the point of the story." Some editors concede that the press generally overuses unidentified sources. Cooke has made them more aware that a paper's reputation can be just as much at stake as the reporter...