Word: voila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sprint of 71 yards on a busted play. Kubacki originally intended to run an option to the right, but ran into a traffic jam consisting of his own players and some Dartmouth defenders in his backfield. So, apparently thinking discretion the better part of valor, he turned left, and voila, there lay the whole field, void of Dartmouth players, before...
...Paris last week, Surgeon Georges Thomeret talked to reporters and displayed a photograph of a dead woman. "She was 24 years old, married, and had a child of two. She had an abortion, done by her concierge. Voila: dead of septicemia [blood poisoning] because she could not afford $500 for a safe abortion in England. That is why I signed the manifesto, because of this woman and others like...
...would not wait for the 1976 elections, when Giscard would be a more potent threat. After naming his new Premier, Pompidou would promptly resign, ask the country for a vote of confidence and get himself re-elected before the left-wing opposition has a chance to catch its breath. Voila! Another seven-year term in the Elysée Palace-if the voters go along with the scenario...
...birth control as "biological teleology passing through stoic reductionism" to a discussion of the nun who thinks that public relations slogans and graphics are this era's most important contribution to the arts. He throws together all sorts of ideas and facts, shakes them up, and up, and Voila! The problem seems so simple, his solutions so perfect...
...Four Seasons. Tape recorder in hand, he simply camps at the seashore or in a rain forest, and lets Mother Nature herself compose an accelerando of breaking waves or a pizzicato polka of storm effects. Then he adds electronic sounds-whirrr, ping, eeeeeee, r-r-r-roar-and voila!, the new art of sonic environments, "music" to the ears of those who would rather "hear" sound than "listen" to it. Walter (Switched-On Bach) Carlos here presents four tone poems-spring, summer, fall, winter-that give a good approximation of what a year's hike might be like...