Word: poofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries. She then emerged to make a few standard-issue remarks and then--poof!--disappeared, even though she had a crowd of People Who Need No Introduction hoping for some quality time with her. Hey, there's Stanley Tucci, there's Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harry Belafonte, Bob Morgenthau. Warm and funny with her inner circle, she is as eager to flee a room...
Just seven words and-poof!-an incalculable amount of damage done. WARW, Greaseman's employer, quickly suspended Greaseman after he made this remark and has subsequently fired him. But there have been rumblings, as Greaseman makes his groveling rounds in such reputable are-nas as Nightline, that the radio man will soon be back...
...ladies, who for a while thought they might have been counting annual club dues as investment gains (they weren't), evidently were making incorrect entries into their computer. Nobody double-checked the math. Poof! There goes their mystique, and possibly the lucrative cottage industry they had developed. Their first book, which mixed down-home recipes for the likes of Kentucky cream cake with investment tips, had that Warren Buffett-like 23.4% emblazoned across the cover. It sold 800,000 copies...
Suddenly, in walks the chief avatar of thedesensitized '90s and POOF! the spell is broken.On press night, when Tarantino opened a closetdoor to reveal the body of one of his victims,some people actually laughed. And can you blamethem? I mean, this is Quentin Tarantino!They were probably expecting him to kill heron-stage and toss off a twisted one-liner beforeher body hit the floor. They were probablyexpecting him to actually shoot heroin, notjust talk about...
...Lily-Tulip Inc.? Now a lean, mean division of Fort Howard Paper Co. Once Dunlap's bum-to-plum magic act is done lining shareholder pockets (Dunlap himself owns several million in Sunbeam stock), he takes the last sure price-boosting step: feeding it to a big rival. Then ? poof! ? he's gone...