Word: voila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME FOR KIDS, managing editor Claudia Wallis also has a private sounding board--her "own little focus group of one"--son Nathaniel, 9. The good word on TFK's prototypes: he liked them! And as would any informed adviser, Nat had a suggestion: Do more stuff on sports. Voila! A story on Cal Ripken...
...Voila! You have just applied to Harvard...
...Clint Eastwood Production When ALISON EASTWOOD was at the Cannes film festival last year with Dad, a model hunter spotted her infinite possibilities. Voila! Clint's daughter is now legging it along Paris runways as a model. ``It's a tough world, with a lot of competition,'' says the elegant beauty, who not long ago was a hoyden galloping on horseback along a California beach. A few more months of couture and Eastwood, 22, returns to her Los Angeles acting classes. As for Dad, says daughter, ``He likes the idea that I'm living abroad, working hard and earning...
...from the early death of any rock star -- of Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens, Jim Morrison or Sid Vicious -- may be the movie made from his life. Producers paw through old press clippings, take a quick snort of the current zeitgeist, tack on a note of mythical tragedy and voila!, a tale for our time with a hit sound track guaranteed...
...Nautical" is the only original item here, for if you've seen one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, you've seen them all. Take the beloved feel-good plot of protagonists overcoming rigid British class divisions through happy fate, play it out in an exotic new location each time, and voila! You've got instant rollicking G&S humor. Luckily, it's an attractive formula and one that is well-mastered by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players...