Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHAT?: "Putney Swope has a nice ring to it. We got it from the movie of the same name...people always mispronounce it, though (Putney Swoop, Puppy Smoke...
There are tricks of the trade too. Savvy bidders know how to swoop in to bag their quarry during the last few seconds of an auction (which can last hours, days or weeks). And certain merchants collude to drive up prices artificially. For the most part, overpaying at these electronic garage sales is the consequence of being too enthusiastic--just as it is with the old-fashioned kind. Caught up in the competitive frenzy of an auction, many people don't know when to fold their cards. Says Tim Brady, vice president of production at Yahoo: "Anybody...
...criminal in The Breakfast Club learned the warm, fuzzy lesson that they can all be friends despite their social differences. And of course there is the ultimate in teen popularity movies, the brilliant Clueless, which mercilessly satirized ultra-rich Valley Girls and the high school scene in one fell swoop...
...display of private drama came, of course, on Tuesday afternoon, the day after Clinton's testimony and speech, when husband, wife and daughter, hand in hand in hand, did their "it's nobody's business but our own" walk across the endless South Lawn to a helicopter waiting to swoop them off to Martha's Vineyard for family therapy. Hillary wore blue, with dark glasses. Her eyes never met the camera. The President smiled slightly. Had the family temperature at that moment seemed too warm, it would have been dismissed as phony; too cold, and it would have invited...
...elements of rock concerts or performance art. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a hot ticket for months, is the life story of a transsexual rock star, told in the form of an autobiographical nightclub act. De La Guarda's circus-like theater piece, Villa Villa, features performers who swoop and soar on cables above the audience (which stands during the entire 60-min. spectacle). "These shows are reinventing theatrical language," says David Binder, a De La Guarda co-producer, "for an audience that thought the theater had nothing to say to them...